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 principal 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 L100,000 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 L18,000 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
ju