Noteworthy Families (Modern Science) Part 6

_me fa_, Erasmus DARWIN, M.D., F.R.S.--See DARWIN.

_me bro son_, Charles Robert DARWIN, F.R.S., the naturalist.--See DARWIN.

_si son_, Edward G. WHELER (b. 1850), a founder and president of the Land Agents' Society; commissioner and estate agent during sixteen years for 155,000 acres of various descriptions of property.

_fa bro son_, Sir Douglas GALTON (1822-1901), K.C.B., D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., pa.s.sed from Woolwich to Royal Engineers with the best examination then on record, obtaining first prize in every subject, 1840; Inspector of Railways, and Secretary of Railway Dept., Board of Trade, 1856; a.s.sistant Inspector-General of Fortifications, 1860; designed and constructed the Herbert Hospital at Woolwich; Director of Public Works and Building in H.M. Works, 1870-1875; General Secretary of British a.s.soc., 1870-1895; President of it, 1895; authority on hospital construction, and on the sanitation, ventilation, etc., of public buildings.--["Dict. N. Biog.," Suppl.

ii.]

_His kindred by his mother's side are:_

_me fa fa_, Jedediah STRUTT (1726-1797), hosiery manufacturer and cotton spinner; inventor of machine for making ribbed stockings; partner of Sir Richard Arkwright.--["Dict. N. Biog."]

_me fa_, Joseph STRUTT (1765-1844), first Mayor of Derby, 1835, and donor of the arboretum; great friend of the poet Thomas Moore.--["Dict. N. Biog.," and "Life and Letters" of T. Moore.]

_me fa bro_, William STRUTT (1756-1830), ingenious mechanician and inventor; friend of Erasmus Darwin, R.L. Edgeworth, Robert Owen, Joseph Lancaster, Samuel Bentham Dalton, etc.; originator and designer of the first Derby Infirmary.--["Dict. N. Biog."]

_me fa bro son_, Edward STRUTT (1801-1880), created Baron BELPER, 1856; M.P., F.R.S.; a philosophical Radical, intimate with Bentham, the Mills, and Macaulay; Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, 1852-1854; President of University Coll., London, 1871.--["Dict. N. Biog."]

_me fa bro son_, Anthony STRUTT (1791-1875), ingenious mechanician.

_me me si son_, Sir Charles FOX (1810-1874), constructing engineer of London and Birmingham Railway; knighted after designing Exhibition buildings in Hyde Park, 1851; made first narrow-gauge line in India; built Berlin Waterworks.--["Dict. N.

Biog."]

Sir Archibald #GEIKIE# (b. 1835), F.R.S., and many foreign distinctions; Director-General Geological Survey of United Kingdom, and Director Museum Practical Geology in Jermyn Street, 1882-1901; medallist of the Royal and other societies; Secretary of the Royal Society; author of numerous works on geology, also of biographies of David Forbes, Sir R. Murchison, and Sir A.

Ramsay.--["Who's Who," "Ency. Brit."]

_fa_, James Stewart GEIKIE (1811-1883), musician and musical critic; author of much psalmody, and of several well-known Scottish melodies, such as "My Heather Hills."

_fa bro_, Walter GEIKIE (1795-1837). R.S.A., painter and draughtsman; author of "Etchings Ill.u.s.trative of Scottish Character and Scenery."--["Dict. N. Biog."]

_me bro_, William THOMS, master mariner; subsequently teacher of navigation in New York; author of an elaborate treatise on navigation.

_bro_, James GEIKIE (b. 1839), LL.D., D.C.L., F.R.S.; Professor of Geology and Mineralogy since 1882, and Dean of the Faculty of Science Edinburgh; author of many works on geology, and of "Songs and Lyrics by Heinrich Heine."--["Who's Who," and "Ency. Brit."]

_fa bro son_, Cunningham GEIKIE (b. 1824), LL.D., D.D., a clergyman; author of many religious works.--["Who's Who."]

_fa bro son_, Walter Bayne GEIKIE, Professor of Anatomy, and Dean of Medical Faculty, Trinity Coll., Toronto.

Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Haversham #G.o.dWIN-AUSTEN# (b. 1834), F.R.S., geologist; Topographical a.s.sistant to the Trigonometric Survey of India; surveyed the high country and glaciers of Kashmir and by Ladak, also between Darjeeling and Punakha; numerous scientific memoirs.--["Who's Who."]

_fa fa fa_, Robert AUSTEN, archaeologist and coin collector; he was one of the few in his time who understood the value of local maps; a good surveyor of his own property and neighbourhood.

_fa fa_, Sir Henry E. AUSTEN, interested in forestry, and planted largely on his estate; he also knew the value of maps, and had excellent ones of his property.

_fa_, Robert Alfred C. G.o.dWIN-AUSTEN (1808-1884), F.R.S., geologist, took additional surname of G.o.dwin; wrote important papers on the geology of Devons.h.i.+re, Southern England, and parts of France.

--["Dict. N. Biog."]

_me fa_, Major-General Sir Thomas H. G.o.dWIN (1784-1853), K.C.B., served in Hanover and the Peninsula, Commander-in-Chief in second Burmese War.--["Dict. N. Biog."]

_bro_, Harold G.o.dWIN-AUSTEN, a.s.sistant-Commissioner to the Andaman Islands for thirteen years; was selected by Ney Elias to accompany him on a mission to Yarkand and Kashmir; is now a Deputy Commissioner in S. India.

_me_, Maria Elizabeth G.o.dWIN-AUSTEN, was certainly above the average of women of her time; interested in natural history; drew well in pen and pencil; was an accomplished musician.

_si son_, Bertram H.M. HEWETT, civil engineer; surveyed the great glaciers of the Mustakh Range, Kashmir, and elsewhere; is now in sole charge of main shaft of tunnel under the river in New York.

Francis #GOTCH# (b. 1853), D.Sc, F.R.S., Waynflete Professor of Physiology at Oxford; formerly Holt Professor of Physiology at University Coll., Liverpool; author of many scientific papers.--["Who's Who."]

_me fa_, Ebenezer FOSTER, founder of well-known banking firm of Messrs. Foster, Cambridge.

_fa_, Fredrick William GOTCH, LL.D., late President of Baptist College, Bristol; Hebrew scholar; member of committee for the authorized version of the Old Testament.

_fa bro son_, Thomas Cooper GOTCH (b. 1854), well-known painter.--["Who's Who."]

_wi bro_, Sir Victor HORSLEY (q.v.)

Right Hon. Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone #GRANT DUFF# (b. 1829), G.C.S.I., P.C., F.R.S., sometime Under-Secretary of State for India and the Colonies, and Governor of Madras; has been Lord Rector of Aberdeen University, and president of many learned societies; King's Trustee of British Museum since 1903; author of political, literary, and biographical works.--["Who's Who."]

_fa_, James GRANT DUFF (1789-1858), while still a lieutenant, aged twenty-eight, reduced the Sattara State to order after the overthrow of the Peishwa, and restored it to the descendant of its ancient princes, whom he guided as resident till his health broke down at the age of thirty-three. Returning to this country, he wrote the "History of the Mahrattas."--["Dict. N. Biog."]

_me fa_, Sir Whitelaw AINSLIE (1767-1837), surgeon in the East India Company's service, 1788-1815; published "Materia Medica of Hindoostan," and other works.--["Dict. N. Biog."]

_son_, Arthur Cuninghame GRANT DUFF (b. 1861), lately First Secretary to H.M.'s Legation, Mexico.

_son_, Evelyn Mountstuart GRANT DUFF (b. 1863), First Secretary to H.M.'s Legation, Persia.

_son_, Adrian GRANT DUFF (b. 1869), Staff-Captain (Intelligence Dept.) Army Headquarters.

John Scott #HALDANE# (b. 1860), F.R.S., University Lecturer in Physiology, Oxford; joint editor and founder of "Journal of Hygiene"; has served on several departmental committees, and carried out special inquiries for Government departments; author of "Blue Books on the Cause of Death in Colliery Explosions,"

1895; "Ankylostomiasis in Mines," 1902-1903, etc.--["Who's Who."]

_fa fa_, James Alexander HALDANE (1768-1851), in the East India Company's naval service till 1797; then devoted himself to itinerary evangelization in Scotland; author of several theological treatises.--["Dict. N. Biog."]

_fa fa bro_, Robert HALDANE (1764-1842), in the Royal Navy till 1797; sold his estate in Stirlings.h.i.+re to devote the proceeds to missions in India, but was prevented by the Government from carrying out this scheme. Carried on evangelistic work in Geneva and the South of France, and co-operated in Scotland with his brother, endowing places of wors.h.i.+p and training young ministers. Wrote several theological treatises.--["Dict. N. Biog."]

_fa bro_, Daniel Rutherford HALDANE (1824-1887), M.D., LL.D., President of Edinburgh College of Physicians.--["Dict. N. Biog."]

_me bro_, Sir John BURDON-SANDERSON, Bart, M.D., F.R.S., etc.--(q.v.)