Frederick Daniel Chattaway, 1860 - 1944

F. D. Chattaway was born at Foleshill in Warwickshire on 9 November 1860, being the eldest of five children of Daniel Clarke Chattaway and Eliza Anne Adcock. He died at Torquay on 27 January 1944 in his eighty-fourth year. His father was a ribbon and trimming manufacturer in Coventry but this trade collapsed and with it the family fortune, following the 1870 treaty with France. In consequence Chattaway’s education was achieved almost entirely by scholarships. His taste for science might derive from his grandfather, but his liking for and knowledge of poetry and literature almost certainly came from his mother who started a small private school in Birmingham when the family income failed. Chattaway received his early education privately from a nonconformist minister, the Rev. J. S. Withers. His training in chemistry began at Mason College under Sir William Tilden. A science and art scholarship enabled him to attend the School of Mines in London and he then passed preliminary examinations at Glasgow with a view to studying medicine. Having no stomach for dissection, however, he turned to chemistry as a career and proceeded to University College, Aberystwyth. Two years later he gained a scholarship at Christ Church, Oxford, where A. G. Vernon Harcourtwas tutor, and obtained a first class in the Natural Science School at Oxford in 1891: a first at London had been gained the previous year. He followed the then general practice of going to Germany and elected to work with Baeyar and Bamberger at Munich.

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Robert Robinson, 1883 - 1941

Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society ◽

10.1098/rsbm.1941.0043 ◽

1941 ◽

Vol 3 (10) ◽

pp. 929-939 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Keyword(s):

Private School ◽

Early Education ◽

Theoretical Chemistry ◽

Practical Skill ◽

Grammar School ◽

Significant Evidence ◽

Undergraduate Study ◽

University College ◽

High Degree ◽

Derivatives Of

Robert Robison was born in 1883 at Newark of Scottish parentage, both his father and mother being natives of Dumfries. He received his early education at Newark, first in a small private school and later at the Magnus Grammar School. In 1900 he matriculated and proceeded with a County scholarship to University College, Nottingham. At Nottingham, Robison did not hasten to acquire his professional qualifications; it was not until 1905 that he took his A. I.C., and only in 1907 that he graduated with the degree of B. Sc. This unusually prolonged period of undergraduate study was partly the result of interruption caused by illness; illness alone, however, was not the most important factor. Rather is the length of the apprenticeship which Robison gave himself significant evidence of the thoroughness and striving after perfection which were such outstanding characteristics of his later work. He made the fullest use of the time to lay the foundations of a sound knowledge of theoretical chemistry and of a high degree of practical skill, and while still an undergraduate he obtained some training in research by collaborating with Professor F. S. Kipping in the latter’s work on organic derivatives of silicon. His maturity at the stage of graduation is shown by the fact that in the same year (1907) he was awarded an 1851 Exhibition Scholarship.

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Family entrepreneurship as a resource for improving the quality of life of the family and its employment ..

Woman in Russian society ◽

10.21064/winrs.2021.1.11 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 126-129

Author(s):

Marina Galas

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Social Practice ◽

Family Income ◽

Program Committee ◽

Russian Government ◽

The Family ◽

Science School ◽

The Government ◽

Family Entrepreneurship

Family entrepreneurship as a resource to improve the quality of life of the family and its employment was the subject of discussions of the II Russian Gender Forum, which was held in Moscow on October 29—30, 2020 at the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation. Moderator and initiator of the Forum, chairman of its Program Committee — Professor G. G. Sillaste, scientific head of the Department of Sociology and Science School “Gender and Economic Sociology” of the Financial University under the Russian Government, a member of the scientific and expert council under the Chairman of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly, defined the purpose of the Forum clearly — analysis of the realities and potential of the development of family entrepreneurship as a long-term social resource of the Russian economy and the quality of life. According to the scientist, family entrepreneurship is a promising technology for the development of a world of neuter gender entrepreneurship, an effective social practice that allows to combine the efforts and experience of family members in a single business useful for it and society, bringing to the family income, confidence in the future and better the quality of life. However, the expansion of family entrepreneurship requires not only the family initiative, but also consistent support from the state at all levels of its management activities. Discussions in numerous sections of the Gender Forum concerned the problems connected with the ways of improving the effectiveness of family and business activities, strengthening the economic solidarity of its members. organizing the exchange of experience, implementing family projects in promoting progressive economic ideas.

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Frank Pasquill, 8 September 1914 - 15 October 1994

Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society ◽

10.1098/rsbm.1996.0018 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 42 ◽

pp. 277-288 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Keyword(s):

Family Income ◽

Large Family ◽

Tuition Fees ◽

Research Fellowship ◽

The Family ◽

University College ◽

The University ◽

First Time ◽

The Village ◽

And Diffusion

Frank Pasquill, who made a major contribution to our understanding of atmospheric turbulence and diffusion over more than four decades, was born on 8 September 1914 in the village of Trimdon, County Durham. He was the only son of Joseph and Elizabeth Pasquill ( née Rudd), both of whom came from Atherton, near Manchester. Joseph Pasquill, one of a large family, left school at the age of twelve to supplement the family income by working in a local mine. Frank was the first member of the family to obtain a secondary education. After attending the local primary school in Trimdon village, Frank obtained an 11-plus place at the Henry Smith Secondary School in Hartlepool which emphasized discipline and hard work. From there he obtained an open scholarship in physics and the Pemberton Scholarship in Science to University College, Durham, in 1932. The university scholarships, together with a County scholarship and an endowed scholarship from Sherburn House, Durham, covered the tuition fees and living expenses so, for the first time in his life, Frank was free of financial worries. He graduated with First Class Honours in physics in 1935 and in consequence was awarded the Pemberton Research Fellowship tenable for two years in University College. This gave him a total of five very happy years in the Castle, where scientists were in the minority but well tolerated by the students of theology and the humanities.

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Sir Ambrose Fleming (Jubilee of the Valve)

Notes and Records the Royal Society journal of the history of science ◽

10.1098/rsnr.1955.0004 ◽

1955 ◽

Vol 11 (2) ◽

pp. 134-144

Keyword(s):

Portland Cement ◽

Private School ◽

Large Family ◽

Fiftieth Anniversary ◽

The Family ◽

University College ◽

High Street ◽

And Mathematics ◽

Set Up ◽

The Way

November of last year (1954) saw the fiftieth Anniversary of the invention of the radio valve. It is fitting therefore to recall the life and work of its originator, John Ambrose Fleming, particularly stressing the way in which his work, converging in many fields, prepared him to make the invention, by which his name is best known. Ambrose was born at Lancaster on 29 November 1849, the eldest of seven children. His father, the Rev. James Fleming, was minister of High Street Congregational Chapel in Lancaster for eight years from August 1845. The family moved to London in 1854 when he became minister of Kentish Town Congregational Chapel, which position he held until his death in 1879. His grandfather on the mother’s side was John Bazley White, of Swanscombe, Kent, who had a large family of sons and daughters. He was a pioneer in the manufacture of Portland cement. From him Ambrose may have inherited something of his original turn of mind, for early in this century Mr White built his own house entirely of cement. One of his mother’s sisters became well known later as the founder of the Ranyard Mission. Early in his life Ambrose exhibited a mechanical turn of mind, interested in things rather than persons. When about ten years old he went to a private school tor boys where he found the geometrical drawing lessons of absorbing interest. At eleven years of age, he had set up his own workshop at home, where he made models of engines and ships. Ambrose entered University College School, Gower Street, in 1864 where he did well in mathematics, but was at the bottom of the classes in Latin. In spite of this he passed the London Matriculation when only 17 years old. Entering University College in 1867 he studied physics under G. Carey Foster and mathematics under de Morgan. After two years at College he had to leave in order to replenish the exchequer.

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Owain Westmacott Richards, 31 December 1901 - 10 November 1984

Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society ◽

10.1098/rsbm.1987.0019 ◽

1987 ◽

Vol 33 ◽

pp. 537-571 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Keyword(s):

Local Government ◽

Family Business ◽

Medical Officer ◽

Medical Practices ◽

The Family ◽

University College ◽

Deputy Chairman ◽

University College London ◽

High Standards ◽

The Town

Owain Westmacott Richards was born on 31 December 1901 in Croydon, the second son of Harold Meredith Richards, M.D., and Mary Cecilia Richards ( née Todd). At the time H. M. Richards was Medical Officer of Health for Croydon, a post he held until 1912 when he returned to the town of his birth, Cardiff, as Deputy Chairman of the newly formed Welsh Insurance Commission, the forerunner of the Welsh Board of Health. Owain Richards’s grandfather had a hatter’s business in Cardiff, which had been established by his father, who had migrated to Cardiff from Llanstephan in Carmarthenshire (now Dyfed). This great-grandfather was probably the last Welsh-speaking member of the family; his son discouraged the use of Welsh as ‘unprogressive’ and married a non-Welsh speaking girl from Haverfordwest. Harold Richards, being the youngest son, did not inherit the family business. On leaving school he worked for some years in a shipping firm belonging to a relative. He found this uncongenial and in his late twenties, having decided to become a doctor, he attended classes at the newly founded University College at Cardiff. Passing the Intermediate Examination he entered University College London, qualifying in 1891, taking his M.D. and gaining gold medals in 1892 and 1893. He was elected a Fellow of University College London in 1898. As medical practices had, at that time, either to be purchased or inherited, Harold Richards took a salaried post as Medical Officer of Health for Chesterfield and Dronfield (Derbyshire), soon moving to Croydon. After his work at Cardiff, he transferred, in 1920, to the Ministry of Health in London, responsible for the medical and hospital aspects of the Local Government Act, 1929 (Anon. 1943 a, b ). He retired in 1930 and died in 1943. His obituaries recorded that he was ‘excessively shy and modest’, that he always ‘overworked’ and had markedly high standards (Anon. 1943 a, b ). Such comments would be equally true of Owain.

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Book Review: Earning and Spending the Family Income

Journal of Education ◽

10.1177/002205743011102518 ◽

1930 ◽

Vol 111 (25) ◽

pp. 724-724

Keyword(s):

Family Income ◽

The Family

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Ernest William Hobson, 1856 - 1933

Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society ◽

10.1098/rsbm.1934.0008 ◽

1934 ◽

Vol 1 (3) ◽

pp. 236-249

Keyword(s):

Natural Science ◽

Early Education ◽

General Rule ◽

Later Life ◽

General Ability ◽

French Music

Ernest William Hobson, who was born at Derby on October 27, 1856, and died rather suddenly, after a short illness, on April 19, 1933, had been for many years one of the first of English mathematicians. Although he lived to be 76, he was active almost up to his death; his last book (and perhaps in some ways his best) was published when he was 74. He was a singular exception to the general rule that good mathematicians do their best work when they are young. Hobson was the son of William Hobson, who was editor and part proprietor of the Derbyshire Advertiser and was prominent in municipal affairs. He was the eldest of a family of six, J. A. Hobson, the wellknown economist, being one of his brothers. His early education was at Derby School. Derby had a mathematical master* of more than usual ability, and Hobson’s mathematical talents were very soon, noticed and encouraged. At 13 he had his first opportunity of distinguishing himself in competition, and was first in all England in the old “ Junior Local ” . It is interesting to observe that he also attained u distinction ” in French, music, and natural science ; such lists usually show nothing but general ability, but in Hobson’s case the subjects represented interests which survived. He was a good linguist (though German was his language in later life rather than French); was definitely musical; and, as he showed in his Gifford lectures, had an exceptional all-round knowledge of science.

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