of age; a man of considerable classical
attainments, and author of "Plataea and Olympia" and other
topographical studies in Greece.
_me me_, Elizabeth, nee COKE, a woman of considerable artistic
ability.
_me me fa_, Thomas William COKE (1752-1842), of Holkham, was created
Earl of LEICESTER; M.P. for Norfolk, 1776-1806, and 1807-1832;
favoured Protection and Parliamentary Reform; introduced modern
methods into agriculture; a famous improver of stock.--["Dict. N.
Biog."]
_fa_, Percival Andree PICKERING, Q.C., Fellow of St. John's Coll.,
Cambridge; Judge of Passage Court; Attorney-General for County
Palatine; author of classical essays and works on Parliamentary law.
_me_, Anna Maria Wilhelmina, nee SPENCER STANHOPE, of decided
literary and classical ability; author of "Memoirs" recently
published.
_fa bro_, Edward Hayes PICKERING, Captain of Montem, Eton; Fellow of
St. John's Coll., Cambridge; died young.
_me bro_, Sir Walter Thomas William SPENCER STANHOPE (b. 1827),
K.C.B., first-class in Mathematics, Oxford, 1848; M.P. West Riding of
Yorkshire, S. division, 1872-1880, and 1882-1890.--["Who's Who."]
_me bro_, John Roddam SPENCER STANHOPE, artist.
_si_, Mary Evelyn DE MORGAN artist.
_si_, Anna Maria Diana Wilhelmina STIRLING, author of novels and
tales under the name of Percival PICKERING.
Sir William #RAMSAY# (b. 1852), K.C.B., LL.D., D.Sc., Ph.D.,
F.R.S., F.C.S.; Professor of Chemistry, University Coll., London,
since 1887; sometime Professor of Chemistry and Principal of
University Coll., Bristol; has published numerous important
scientific papers.--["Who's Who."]
_fa fa_, William RAMSAY, manufacturing chemist; first made acetic
acid from wood; discovered bi-chrome; President of the first Chemical
Society, Glasgow, 1796, which was merged in the Glasgow Philosophical
Society, 1802.
_fa bro_, Sir Andrew Crombie RAMSAY (1814-1891), F.R.S., Professor of
Geology, University Coll., London, 1847; Director-General of the
Geological Survey, 1871.--["Dict. N. Biog."]
_mo bro_, Robert ROBERTSON, editor of a daily London paper (about
1835).
#RAYLEIGH#, Lord.--See STRUTT.
Clement #REID#, F.R.S., District Geologist on Survey of England and
Wales; author of many works on Geology.--["Who's Who."]
_si_, Margery Anna REID, B.Sc., London; science mistress at Ladies'
Coll., Cheltenham; very successful as a teacher.
_me bro son_, Harold Leslie BARNARD, surgeon, and i
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