Noteworthy Families (Modern Science) Part 14

_fa bro son_, Herbert KYNASTON (b. 1835), D.D., Camden Medallist and Browne Medallist, 1855; bracketed Senior Cla.s.sic, 1857; Fellow of St. John's Coll., Cambridge, 1858; Princ.i.p.al of Cheltenham Coll., 1874-1888; Professor of Greek and Cla.s.sical Literature, University of Durham, 1889.--["Who's Who."]

John William #STRUTT# (b. 1842), third Baron #RAYLEIGH#, D.C.L.

(Hon. Oxon.), LL.D., O.M., F.R.S., Hon. Sc.D. (Cambridge and Dublin), Professor of Natural Philosophy, Royal Inst., since 1887; Senior Wrangler and Smith's Prizeman, 1865; Professor of Experimental Physics, Cambridge, 1879-1884; Secretary Roy. Soc., 1887; author of "Theory of Sound," and many scientific papers.--["Who's Who," and "Ency. Brit."]

_bro_, Hon. Edward Gerald STRUTT, successful land-agent and surveyor.

_me si son_, Ronald Montague BURROWS (b. 1867), Professor of Greek in the University Coll. of S. Wales and Monmouthshire.--["Who's Who."]

_son_, Hon. Robert John STRUTT (b. 1875), F.R.S., Fellow of Trinity Coll., Cambridge; author of papers on radium, etc.--["Who's Who."]

_me fa bro_, Major-General Edward VICARS, R.E., distinguished himself under Lord John Hay on North Coast of Spain; brevet majority and Spanish orders for gallantry before San Sebastian in 1836; selected for special duty with the fleet in 1854, but taken ill on the way out, and retired on full pay.

_wife_, see BALFOUR.

William #THOMSON# (b. 1824), Baron #KELVIN# (1892), P.C., O.M., F.R.S., and numerous other distinctions; eminent mathematical physicist; inventor of mirror galvanometer, of siphon recorder in connection with submarine telegraphy, of a new form of mariner's compa.s.s, etc.; acted as electrical engineer for many submarine cables; President of British a.s.soc., 1871, of Royal Soc., 1890-1895, and four times of Royal Soc., Edinburgh; author of numerous mathematical and physical memoirs.--["Who's Who," and "Ency. Brit."]

_fa_, James THOMSON (1786-1849), son of a small farmer in co. Down; commenced the study of mathematics on his own initiative; became Professor of Mathematics at Belfast, 1815, then at University of Glasgow, 1832; also a good cla.s.sical scholar and astronomer; wrote the authorized mathematical text-books of the Commissioners of National Education in Ireland.--["Dict. N. Biog."]

_bro_, James THOMSON (1822-1892), F.R.S., Hon. LL.D., Glasgow and Dublin, Professor of Civil Engineering, first at Queen's Coll., Belfast, 1857-1873, then at Glasgow, 1873-1889. Invented the "vortex water-wheel," 1850; numerous memoirs on physical investigations.--["Dict. N. Biog.," and "Ency. Brit."]

_bro_, John THOMSON, died young, having contracted hospital fever during medical study at Glasgow. Considered as able as his brothers.

_si son_, James Thomson BOTTOMLEY, F.R.S. (q.v.).

_si son_, George KING, actuary and mathematician; author of many original papers, and of an authoritative work on actuarial subjects.

Sir John Isaac #Th.o.r.n.yCROFT# (b. 1843), LL.D., F.R.S., Vice-President of Inst. of Naval Architecture, etc.; founded shipbuilding works at Chiswick, 1866; introduced improvements in naval architecture and marine engineering, which have promoted high speeds at sea.--["Who's Who."]

_me fa_, John FRANCIS (1780-1861), sculptor, pupil of Chantrey; exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1820-1856; his works include busts of Miss Horatio Nelson, Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and the Duke of Wellington.--["Dict. N. Biog."]

_fa_, Thomas Th.o.r.n.yCROFT (1815-1885), sculptor; executed the group of Commerce on the Albert Memorial, and other statues.--["Dict. N.

Biog."]

_me_, Mary Th.o.r.n.yCROFT (1814-1895), sculptor.--["Dict. N. Biog."]

_bro_, William Hamo Th.o.r.n.yCROFT (b. 1850), R.A., sculptor. His works include national monument to General Gordon in Trafalgar Square and in Melbourne; John Bright in Rochdale; Lord Granville in Houses of Parliament; and very many others.--["Who's Who."]

Charles Sissmore #TOMES# (b. 1846), F.R.S., late lecturer on dental anatomy at Dental Hosp. of London; Crown nominee on General Medical Council, 1898, etc.; author of a "Manual of Dental Anatomy, Human and Comparative," and of many memoirs on odontology in "Phil. Trans.," etc.--["Who's Who."]

_fa_, Sir John TOMES (1815-1895), F.R.S., dental surgeon; invented dental forceps; memoirs on histology of bone and teeth; delivered lectures at Middles.e.x Hosp., which marked new era in dentistry; induced Royal Coll. of Surgeons to grant license in dental surgery; one of the chief founders of the Odontological Soc., 1856, and of the Dental Hosp., 1858; secured pa.s.sing of Dentists Act, 1878; wrote well-known treatise on "Dental Surgery," and other works.--["Dict. N.

Biog."]

_fa bro_, Robert Fisher TOMES (1824-1904), authority on insectivora and chiroptera; edited Bell's "British Quadrupeds"; wrote natural history sections for his own and neighbouring county histories.

_me bro_, George SIBLEY, C.E.I., went out to India as a civil engineer, and without influence rose to be chief engineer of the East Indian Railways, and did much important work in bridge-building.

James William Helenus #TRAIL# (b. 1851), F.R.S., Regius Professor of Botany, University of Aberdeen, since 1877; naturalist of an exploring expedition in N. Brazil, 1873-1875; has been largely occupied in the administrative work of the University and of other educational bodies in N. Scotland; has published numerous botanical and zoological papers in scientific journals.--["Who's Who."]

_fa_, Samuel TRAIL, LL.D., D.D. (both hon.), obtained Hutton Scholarship in Aberdeen as the most distinguished graduate of his year, 1825; Professor of Systematic Theology, University of Aberdeen, 1867; Moderator of Church of Scotland, 1874.

_me bro_, Hercules SCOTT, LL.D., Professor of Moral Philosophy in the King's Coll. and University, Old Aberdeen, 1820-1860; said to have taken a large part in the administration of the University.

_bro_, John Arbuthnot TRAIL, LL.D., Writer to the Signet in Edinburgh; prominent in administration connected with the University of Edinburgh, the Church of Scotland, and other public bodies.

_me si son_, David BROWN, General; formerly Commissioner of Lower Burmah.

John #VENN# (b. 1834), D.Sc., F.R.S., Fellow of Caius Coll., Cambridge; President, 1903; for many years lecturer on Moral Philosophy at Cambridge; author of many works on logic, and of "A Biographical History of Gonville and Caius Coll."--["Who's Who."]

_fa fa_, John VENN (1759-1813), scientific and mechanical interests; one of the first to adopt vaccination, applying it to his own children, and recommending it in the parish of Clapham, where he was rector in 1800; the princ.i.p.al founder of the Church Missionary Soc., 1798, the rules of which he sketched out much as they are still retained.--["Dict. N. Biog."]

_fa_, Henry VENN (1796-1873), Wrangler and Fellow of Queens' Coll., Cambridge; for many years secretary and practically manager of the Church Missionary Soc., the income of which increased under his guidance to over 100,000 per annum; vicar of Drypool, 1827, and of St. John's, Holloway, London, 1834-1846.--["Dict. N. Biog."]

_fa bro_, John VENN (1802-1890), Wrangler and Fellow of Queens'

Coll., Cambridge; much practical skill and success in philanthropic schemes in his parish of St. Peter's at Hereford; he started a steam corn-mill, which was so successful that it led to many other developments in the way of aiding the industrious--e.g., a loan department, which, by 1848, had advanced some 18,000 to various poor and struggling persons, and an extensive experimental garden for teaching garden allotment and small farm work, etc.

_fa si son_, Sir James Fitzjames STEPHEN (1829-1894), distinguished judge; in earlier life journalist, essayist, and reviewer; then Legal Member of the Council of the Governor-General of India; author of legal works.--["Dict. N. Biog."]

_fa si son_, Sir Leslie STEPHEN (1832-1904), K.C.B., Litt.D., at one time famous as a mountaineer; eminent literary editor and critic; President of the Ethical Soc.; editor of the earlier volumes of the "Dictionary of National Biography"; author of many works, including a biography of his brother.

_fa fa fa_, Henry VENN (1725-1797), an evangelical divine, a man of remarkable energy and force of character; Fellow of Queens' Coll., Cambridge, 1749-1757; curate of Clapham, 1754; vicar of Huddersfield, 1759; rector of Yelling, 1771-1797; author of the "Complete Duty of Man."--["Dict. N. Biog."]

_fa fa fa fa_, Richard VENN (1691-1740), a learned divine; rector of St. Antholin's, London, 1725-1739. He acquired some prominence by publicly objecting to the appointment of Dr. Rundle, a lat.i.tudinarian, to the bishopric of Gloucester, on the ground of unorthodox views.--["Dict. N. Biog."]

_fa si da_, Emelia BATTEN, afterwards Mrs. Russell Gurney; distinguished by her artistic taste and accomplishments; author of "Dante's Pilgrims' Progress."--["Letters," with a brief biography, by Ellen Gurney, 1902.]

_me fa bro_, Daniel SYKES (1766-1832), F.R.S., Fellow of Trinity Coll., Cambridge; Recorder and M.P. for Hull; prominent as an early supporter of the Reform Movement.

_me fa fa_, Joseph SYKES (1723-1805), large and successful merchant in Hull, where he was the princ.i.p.al founder of the trade in Swedish iron; Mayor and Sheriff of Hull, and D.L. of the E. Riding.

For further particulars of the Venn family, see "Venn Family Annals,"

by Dr. John Venn (Macmillan and Co., 1904).

Robert #WARINGTON# (b. 1838), F.R.S., Examiner in Agricultural Science to the Board of Education since 1894; Professor of Rural Economy, Oxford, 1894-1897; author of twenty-six papers in the "Transactions" of the Chemical Soc., "The Chemistry of the Farm"

(seventeenth edition), "Lectures on the Rothamsted Experiments,"

and "Lectures on the Physical Properties of the Soil."--["Who's Who."]