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NOTEWORTHY FAMILIES
return ; great friend of the poet Thomas Moore. -[" Dict N Biog " and "Life and Letters" of T. Moore.]
me fa bra, William Strutt (1756-1830), in
genious 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.-[" Diet. N. Biog."]
me fa biro son, Edward Strutt (18oi-i88o), 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."]
ae fa bra son, Anthony Strutt (1791-1875),
ingenious mechanician.
me me si son, Sir Charles Fox (181o-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
