Frederick Maurice Rowe, 1891-1946

1948 ◽  
Vol 6 (17) ◽  
pp. 231-250
Keyword(s):  
Technical Training ◽  
Grammar School ◽  
The West ◽  
Textile Dyeing ◽  
The Family ◽  
Strong Attachment ◽  
The University ◽  
Edict Of Nantes

Frederick Maurice Rowe, Professor in the Department of Colour Chemistry and Dyeing at the University of Leeds, died on the 8 December 1946, at the age of fifty-five. He was born on 11 February 1891 at Stroud in Gloucestershire where his father, H. J. Rowe, was engaged in business as a coal merchant and dealer in builders’ materials, under the name of Wood and Rowe. From 1901 to 1908 he attended Marling School, Stroud, and always retained for it a strong attachment for which there were solid grounds. The school, founded and endowed in 1887 by Sir Samuel Marling, a prominent figure in the West of England cloth trade in that part of Gloucestershire, had attracted the attention of the Worshipful Company of Cloth workers by whose efforts a Department of Dyeing had been established at the Yorkshire College, Leeds. The Company decided to provide funds for an annual leaving scholarship to help a Marling School boy to proceed to Leeds for two years’ technological training in textile dyeing at the College. Similar provision was made at Cheltenham Grammar School and in consequence there were unusual opportunities for boys from Gloucestershire to go north for scientific and technical training whilst becoming familiar with another district famous for its woollen industry. On his mother’s side Rowe was descended from a family of Huguenots who fled from France after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 and settled in Gloucestershire to practise their craft of woollen manufacture with which some members of the family continued to maintain a connexion. This circumstance and the Cotswold environment may have helped to direct Rowe’s choice of a career, but a love for chemistry was awakened in him by one of the masters at the school, Bartlett, whose influence in after years he frequently acknowledged with gratitude.

scholarly journals Harpacticoid Copepods from the West Indian Islands: Darcythompsoniidae (Copepoda, Harpacticoida)

1986 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 282-290 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Fiers
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
West Indian ◽  
The West ◽  
Harpacticoid Copepods ◽  
The Family ◽  
The University

The present article in a series on the harpacticoid copepods gathered during the West Indian expeditions of the University of Amsterdam deals with three species of the family Darcythompsoniidae: Darcythompsonia inopinata Smirnov, Leptocaris glaber n. sp., and Leptocaris echinatus n. sp. Through comparison with other specimens from different localities, Darcythompsonia radans Por is considered here a synonym of D. inopinata Smirnov.

scholarly journals Birzeit University Students’ Perception of Bottled Water Available in the West Bank Market

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Buthainah Abdah ◽  
Issam A. Al-Khatib ◽  
Abdelhaleem I. Khader
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
West Bank ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Bottled Water ◽  
The West ◽  
Environmentally Conscious ◽  
Bottled Drinking Water ◽  
The Family ◽  
The University ◽  
Academic Year

Water bottling industry has negative environmental impacts due to exploitation and possible pollution of water resources and due to solid waste problems related to the use of plastic bottles. To mitigate these impacts, it is important to study the link between consuming bottled drinking water and the perception of its quality. The objective of the study is to assess the perception of Birzeit University students’ of the bottled water marketed in the West Bank and its impact on the humans and the environment. Universities play an important role in providing awareness about environmental issues and sustainability, and university students are thought to be more environmentally conscious about these issues. A quantitative survey was used to analyze the behaviors and perceptions of Birzeit University students. The sample size was 375 students, distributed according to the college, gender, and the academic year at the university. The results show that the factors that affect the perception of the students are mainly the educational year at the university, the income, the family size, and the community type.

scholarly journals Norman James Petch, 13 February 1917 - 9 December 1992

1995 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
pp. 342-357 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Grammar School ◽  
Good Sense ◽  
World War ◽  
The West ◽  
The Family ◽  
Great Love ◽  
The Village ◽  
General Strike

Norman Petch was born in Glasgow on 13 February 1917, the third child in a family of three boys and one girl. He had an English father who was a commercial traveller in drapery for most of his working life, and a Scottish mother. The family moved to England shortly after World War I, where most of his youth was spent in various parts of the West Riding of Yorkshire. He was not to live again in Scotland until relatively late in his career, when in 1973 he became Professor of Metallurgy at Strathclyde University. Despite this, he was proud of his Scottish origins, and had a great love of Scotland which was reflected in his eventual retirement to Culbokie in the Black Isle. Norman’s grandfather lived at Findon Cottage in Culbokie where he had been the agent for Sir George MacKenzie, a large landowner. His property, comprizing a delightful cottage and 10 acres, was a constant attraction to Norman from the age of two through his school years, and indeed throughout his life provided a serene environment in which to relax and to write, and finally a retirement haven. His education began in Yorkshire in the local school in the village of Aberford, where he exhibited an early interest in technology by making a crystal wireless set and by showing a mature knowledge of the workings of the family car. During the General Strike in 1926 Norman built a trolley from an old tin bath and pram wheels in order to transport logs from a nearby wood, as coal was unavailable at this time. He was clearly a contemplative child who played long games of chess with his father, and at an early age revealed a thoughtful attitude to life. In later years he was not a person to provide instant wisdom, but after mature reflection could be relied on to talk very good sense. His secondary education was principally at the Grammar School in Tadcaster, but completed at the West Leeds High School when the family moved to Leeds.

Walter Stiles, 1886-1966

1967 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 343-357
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Technical College ◽  
The West ◽  
Public Elementary School ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Family ◽  
University College ◽  
Leading Position ◽  
The University ◽  
Grassland Research

Walter Stiles was born on 23 August 1886 at Shepherd’s Bush, Hammersmith. He was the eldest child of the family and had one sister born three years later. Both his parents were Londoners. His father, Walter Stiles (1861-1938), was an artist who worked in wood and clay and whose work ornamented many large houses in London and elsewhere. His mother was Elizabeth Sarah Stiles ( née Dury; 1859-1943). His grandfather, James Stiles, was a corn merchant of Pimlico and the family appears previously to have been long settled in Kent in the neighbourhood of Cobham. James’s brother, Walter Stiles, at Cobham, was the grandfather of Walter Stanley Stiles, F.R.S. On 7 July 1920 Walter Stiles married Edith Ethel May Harwood at St Mary’s Church, Stamford Brook, Hammersmith. Her parents came from the West Country, her father from Wiltshire and her mother from Dorset. There were two children; Walter born in 1922 and Ruth Mary born in 1927. The son graduated in physics at the University of Birmingham and now works on irrigation problems as a member of the staff of the Grassland Research Institute, Hurley, Berkshire. The daughter, after graduating at Birmingham in Spanish and Portuguese, went on to the University of Madrid and is now a lecturer in Spanish at Torquay Technical College. Stiles’s education commenced at the public elementary school in Westville Road, Shepherd’s Bush (1890-1897). He then, with the assistance of L.C.C. junior and intermediate scholarships, went to Latymer Upper School, Hammersmith, of which he afterwards wrote in enthusiastic terms. Very much, he said, was due to the wisdom of the headmaster, the Reverend C. J. Smith, who, from a modest beginning in 1895, raised the school to a leading position among the grammar schools of London. Personally, he felt that he owed a great deal to the teaching of the Mathematics and Senior Science Master, G. M. Grace, who was a source of inspiration to his pupils. Contemporary with Stiles were Harold Spencer Jones, later F.R.S. and Astronomer Royal; G. K. Livers, afterwards Professor of Mathematics at University College, Cardiff; and D. Orson Wood, for many years an Editor of Science Progress .

scholarly journals Harpacticoid Copepods from the West Indian Islands: Laophontidae (Copepoda, Harpacticoida)

1986 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 132-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Fiers
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
West Indies ◽  
New Genus ◽  
West Indian ◽  
The West ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
Harpacticoid Copepods ◽  
The Family ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
The University

The present paper deals exclusively with the species of the family Laophontidae found in samples gathered during several expeditions of the University of Amsterdam to the West Indies. Four new species belonging to different genera are described. Two new species and Laophonte adriatica are assigned to a new genus: Lipomelum n. gen. Furthermore, additional information on seven other laophontids is given.

John Bretland Farmer, 1865-1944

1945 ◽  
Vol 5 (14) ◽  
pp. 17-31 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Natural Science ◽  
Royal Botanic Garden ◽  
Grammar School ◽  
Botanic Garden ◽  
The Family ◽  
Obituary Notice ◽  
The University ◽  
Made In

By the death of Sir John Farmer in 1944 biology lost a remarkable personality, notable not only in academic botany and in the field of its application, but also as an administrator. He was born on 5 April 1865 at Atherstone, the son of John Henry Farmer and Elizabeth Corbett, née Rutland. The family was an old Leicestershire one of which the earlier name was Warde, the change to Farmer being made in the sixteenth century. He attended the Queen Elizabeth Grammar School at Atherstone, but owing to temporary ill-health he left after five years and was later educated privately. He went to Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1883 holding a demyship in natural science from that year to 1887, when he took a first class in the Honours School of Natural Science. While at Oxford Farmer came under the influence of Isaac Bayley Balfour, who was Sherardian Professor of Botany for the brief period of 1884-1888, when he went to Edinburgh as Professor of Botany in the University and Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden, a post which Balfour’s father had held before him. In after life Farmer always spoke most warmly of Bayley Balfour as teacher, botanist, gardener and friend, and ended an obituary notice of his old teacher with this high appreciation, ‘Really great men are very rare and Isaac Bayley Balfour was one of them’. It is probable that Farmer owed to Bayley Balfour not only encouragement in botany but also his gardening enthusiasm.

scholarly journals Christopher Kelk Ingold, 1893-1970

1972 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 348-411 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Grammar School ◽  
Isle Of Wight ◽  
The Family ◽  
University College ◽  
The University

Christopher Kelk Ingold, the son of William Kelk Ingold and Harriet Walker Newcomb, was born at Forest Gate, London, on 28 October 1893. On account of his father’s health, the family moved to Shanklin, Isle of Wight, while he was still an infant. His father, William Kelk Ingold, died when Christopher was only 5 years old, and his sister Doris, who survives him, was only 2 years old. Christopher Ingold attended Sandown Grammar School, and went on to Hartley University College, Southampton, now the University of Southampton; there he obtained his B.Sc. Honours Degree as an external student of the University of London in October 1913. At school and at college he was better at physics than at chemistry; but at Southampton in those days, physics was taught as a completed subject, very neat and tidy and rather dull, whereas chemistry, under Professor D. R. Boyd, was taught as a living, growing, and exciting subject, and he therefore decided to take up chemistry. He does not seem to have played games at school or college; however, he once told the writer that he could have done better in his degree examinations if he had not devoted so much time to playing chess in the Union.

Henry Stanley Raper, 1882 - 1951

1953 ◽  
Vol 8 (22) ◽  
pp. 566-582
Keyword(s):  
Sudden Death ◽  
Medical School ◽  
Large Family ◽  
Early History ◽  
Academic Affairs ◽  
The West ◽  
Natural Knowledge ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The University

To chemists, biochemists and physiologists, H. S. Raper is known for his pioneer work on the metabolism of fat and the formation of melanin, and to them, and his intimate friends, his sudden death has left a gap which will endure. In his later years, and with the development of his career, the management of academic affairs robbed him of the time which he would have preferred to have given to the laboratory. As a recompense, however, the circle of his friendships and acquaintances extended, and he became widely known and revered and greatly esteemed for his gentle, kindly nature, the wisdom of his judgment, and the careful, considered soundness of his counsel and advice, which he willingly gave to the individual and to the wider gathering of his colleagues who sat with him on committees, or joined with him in his endeavours for the medical school, and the university, he loved and served so long and so well. Family and early history Henry Stanley Raper was born on 5 March 1882, in Bradford, in Yorkshire. There were, in all, nine children in the family, of whom seven survived —two daughters and five sons. Henry Stanley was the eighth child and the youngest son. He was survived by one brother and one sister. He was the son of James Rhodes Raper and Sarah Ann Tankard. J. R. Raper was a well-known and much-revered figure in the business life of the West Riding of Yorkshire. He was first cashier, and later, he and his elder sons came to manage, and then to own, a large business house in the West Riding. When J. R. Raper retired he went to live in Grassington in the upper reaches of his beloved Wharfedale, and became an authority on the flora of the district. Here in Wharfedale, for many years, the Raper boys spent much time and came to know the adjoining moors and dales. The youngest son, Henry Stanley, although the only one of this large family to make as his calling the pursuit of natural knowledge and research, was very like physically, and had many of the characteristics of, his much esteemed and beloved father.

scholarly journals Hvorfor kom N. F. S. Grundtvig ikke i Viborg Latinskole?

1951 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-94
Author(s):  
F. Paludan-Müller
Keyword(s):  
Boarding School ◽  
Final Examination ◽  
Grammar School ◽  
Guinea Coast ◽  
Whole School ◽  
The Family ◽  
Turn Over ◽  
The University

Why did N. F. S. Grundtvig not go to the Grammar School in Viborg? By F. Paludan-Miiller. N. F. S. Grundtvig had three elder brothers, who all became clergymen like himself. These brothers were: 1) Otto Grundtvig (1772—1833), who entered the University in 1789 from Herlufsholm boarding-school in South Sjaelland and afterwards was a clergyman on the island of Falster and subsequently in the vicinity of Copenhagen; 2) Jacob Ulrich Hansen Grundtvig (1775—1800), who entered the University from Viborg Grammar School in 1795 and died as a clergyman in the Danish colony on the Guinea Coast; 3) Niels Christian Bang Grundtvig (1777—1803), who also entered the University from Viborg, in 1796, and also died as a clergyman on the Guinea Coast. Both these elder brothers who were nearest in age to N. F. S. Gr. were prepared as private pupils for some years by Pastor L. Feld before they were sent to the Grammar School in Viborg. N. F. S. Grundtvig, too, was taught as a private pupil, from his ninth to his fifteenth year, by Pastor Feld (who at that time was a clergyman at Thyregod in the middle of Jutland). Strangely enough, he was afterwards sent to the Latin School in Aarhus, and not to Viborg as one would naturally have expected. The reason for this may perhaps be found in the behaviour of his elder brothers as students at Viborg Grammar School, for its records show that their careers at the school were not very successful. Jacob was a stubborn character and not a very diligent student. In 1794 he and another boy attacked some of their fellow-pupils during a game of ball, and he was subsequently reprimanded in front of the whole school, and very nearly sent down. But he promised to turn over a new leaf, and remained at the school, which he left in 1795 after doing badly in his final examination. Niels also showed a lack of diligence, and, in consequence of this, was a »private pupil« during his last two years at school, which at that time meant, among other things, that the school took no responsibility for him as a student. However, he did very well in his final examination in 1796. — Presumably it was these circumstances which caused the family to decide to send the youngest brother (N. F. S. Grundtvig) to Aarhus.

scholarly journals Bertram Dillon Steele, 1870-1934

1934 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 345-348
Keyword(s):  
17Th Century ◽  
First Year ◽  
Grammar School ◽  
The Third ◽  
Professional Success ◽  
The Family ◽  
University Professor ◽  
The Law ◽  
The University ◽  
The Church

Bertram Dillon Steele was born on May 30, 1870, at Plymouth, where he spent his boyhood and attended the Grammar School. It was a tradition in the family that they were the descendants of a member of the outlawed Macgregor clan who, early in the 17th century, had taken the name of Steele and migrated southwards. Be that as it may, several members of the family had attained professional success in the Church, the Law or the Army, and Bertram was the third of his race to achieve the position of a University professor. Emigrating as a youth to Australia, he at first studied Pharmacy, intending to take it up as a business; but in his first year as a student in the University of Melbourne he found that his true bent was for Science and especially for Chemistry.

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