y; 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., passed 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; Assistant 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 Assoc., 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,
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