nventor of
apparatus for testing blood-pressure.
_me me bro_, Michael FARADAY (1791-1867), F.R.S., Fullerian Professor
Royal Institution; famous chemist and electrician; started his
scientific career as assistant to Sir Humphry Davy.--["Dict. N.
Biog."]
_me fa bro_, George BARNARD, landscape artist and author of many
books on drawing and painting.
_me fa bro son_, Frederick BARNARD (1846-1896), artist and
caricaturist; illustrator of Dickens, contributor to "Punch,"
etc.--["Dict. N. Biog."]
Sir Henry Enfield #ROSCOE#, Ph.D., LL.D., D.C.L., F.R.S., Professor
of Chemistry Owens College, Manchester, 1857-1887; President
Society of Chemical Industry, 1881; of Chemical Society, 1882;
knighted, 1884; M.P. for S. division of Manchester, 1885-1895;
President of Brit. Assoc., 1887; Vice-Chancellor of the
University of London, 1896-1902; author of many memoirs and works
on chemistry.--["Who's Who."]
_fa fa_, William ROSCOE (1753-1831), historian, poet, and
philanthropist; author of "Lives of Lorenzo de' Medici," of "Leo X.,"
and of several volumes of verse; M.P. for Liverpool, 1806-1807;
promoter and first President of its Royal Institution.--["Dict. N.
Biog."]
_fa_, Henry ROSCOE (1800-1836), biographer, including Life of his
father.--["Dict. N. Biog."]
_fa bro_, Thomas ROSCOE (1791-1871), miscellaneous writer and
translator.--["Dict. N. Biog."]
_fa bro_, William Stanley ROSCOE, poet.--["Dict. N. Biog."]
_fa bro_, Robert ROSCOE, poet, wrote "King Alfred."
_me_, Maria, nee FLETCHER, artist and authoress, wrote "Life of
Vittoria Colonna."
_me si_, Harriet FLETCHER, authoress of "Tales for Children."
_fa bro son_, William Caldwell ROSCOE (1822-1859), poet and
essayist.--["Dict. N. Biog."]
_fa si son_, William Stanley JEVONS (1835-1882), F.R.S., economist
and logician; Professor of Logic and Political Economy at Owens
Coll., 1866-1879; at University Coll., London, 1876-1880; influential
writer.--["Dict. N. Biog."]
_me si son_, Rt. Hon. Charles BOOTH, P.C., F.R.S. (q.v.).
_me si son_, Charles CROMPTON.--See BOOTH.
_me si son_, Henry CROMPTON.--See BOOTH.
#ROSSE#, fourth Earl of.--See PARSONS.
Edward John #ROUTH# (b. 1831), Sc.D., Camb., Sc.D. (hon.), Dublin,
LL.D. (hon.) Glasgow, F.R.S., Senior Wrangler and Smith's prize,
1854; Adams prize, 1877; has had twenty-seven Senior Wranglers
and more than forty Smith's Prizemen for pupils. Author of
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