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NOTEWORTHY FAMILIES

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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 bichrome ; President of the first Chemical Society, Glasgow, 1796, which was merged in the Glasgow Philosophical Society, 1802.

fa bro, Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay (18141891), 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).

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