John Hilton Grace, 1873-1958

1958 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 92-97 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Early Education ◽  
Mathematical Ability ◽  
Advanced Age ◽  
Mathematical Work ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Missed Opportunities ◽  
Village School ◽  
The Village ◽  
Outstanding Teacher

John Hilton Grace was born on 21 May 1873 at Halewood, a village in South Lancashire not far from Liverpool, the eldest of six children of a farmer. He received his early education at the village school, from which he went on to the Liverpool Institute. Here he came under the influence of an outstanding teacher of mathematics, J. A. Owen (who lived to the advanced age of 103), and in 1892 he entered Peterhouse, Cambridge, with an open Entrance Scholarship. His was a vintage year for Cambridge mathematics; among those who took the Mathematical Tripos in 1895 were six future Fellows of the Royal Society; besides Grace himself these were T. J. I’A. Bromwich, F. W. Carter, B. Hopkinson, E. T. Whittaker (later Sir Edmund Whittaker), and A. Young. Young was to become closely associated with Grace in his later mathematical work. There was intense rivalry, not only between the candidates but between their colleges, for the Senior Wrangler-ship. Grace, Bromwich, and Whittaker were the most fancied candidates, and the element of doubt in Grace’s case was not due to any misgivings regarding his mathematical ability, but because it was thought that his rather unstable way of life might result in his not doing himself justice. At any rate a wag pinned on the door of one of the favourites, who was known to be of a religious turn of mind, the verse ‘Work, as if on that alone Hung the issue of the day, Pray that Grace may be sent down, Work and pray!’ In the event, Bromwich was Senior Wrangler, and Grace and Whittaker were bracketed second. Rumour had it that Grace was in the lead at the end of the penultimate paper, but celebrated a day too soon. Whether this is true or not it is in keeping with the fact that Grace was his own worst enemy, and throughout his life he missed opportunities of achieving the greatness of which he was capable through his intemperate habits.

scholarly journals George Frederick Charles Searle, 1864-1954

1955 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 246-252 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Later Life ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Advanced Age ◽  
Cavendish Laboratory ◽  
Village School ◽  
The Village

George Frederick Charles Searle was born on 3 December 1864 at the village of Oakington in Cambridgeshire, of which his father, the Rev. W. G. Searle, was vicar. He was the eldest of five children, three boys and two girls. His schooling was limited to six days at the village school, otherwise he was taught by his father, who though a Wrangler was more interested in languages, and taught him Hebrew as well as more usual subjects. G.F.C. retained enough Hebrew in later life to impress the custodian of a synagogue at Gibraltar. He taught himself the use of tools, which was a life-long pleasure. He constructed a dynamo while a boy. At the age of 14 he was taken by Clerk Maxwell round the Cavendish Laboratory, which deeply impressed him, and seems to have turned his thoughts to the direction of physics. He was a tall, well-built man of a little under six foot in height. As an undergraduate he gained a half-blue for cycling, then an important sport, and continued to bicycle for pleasure and utility to an advanced age, but he was not interested in games, nor did he greatly care for walking. After a period of private coaching lasting about 18 months with a Mr Barrel, Searle came up to Cambridge with a foundation scholarship to Peterhouse. He read mathematics and was placed 28th Wrangler in the Tripos of 1887. He then studied for Part II of the Natural Sciences Tripos in which he took a second class next year.

J. D. Griffith Davies 1899-1953 (Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, 1937-1946)

1955 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-133
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
County Council ◽  
Childhood And Youth ◽  
The Village

John David Griffith Davies was born at Trellech, Mon., on 9 January 1899. His childhood and youth were spent at Trellech Vicarage where his father, the Rev. Thomas Davies, was incumbent. Thomas Davies was of Cardiganshire yeoman stock: he served his parish faithfully for forty years, enjoying the long tramps which his visiting involved, and relaxed in gardening and in reading the classics. He was nearly forty when ‘Jack’ was born, he was set in an uncompromising mould, and he kept his son at his books often when the boy would have preferred to be off with others: humorous and a good host he was in fact, with his stern standards, rather a frightening parent—but Davies spoke of him many times to me, and always with regard and affection. He was one of the early Fabians and later, for many years, Chairman of the Monmouthshire County Council. Jack’s mother, Margaret Ann Davies, came from Treforest, Glam.; she was the oldfashioned parson’s wife, with a strong matriarchal attitude towards the village. There were cheerful parties at the vicarage, and dances in the barn converted into a Parish Hall. Many of Jack’s young friends were sons of neighbouring parsons, lively fellows, mostly athletes, but Jack’s inferiors in the classroom. Griffith Davies went to Monmouth School where he did well in class and games, particularly Rugby football. He was greatly influenced there by Angus Buchanan, older than himself; their families were friends. Buchanan, a fine scholar and athlete, went to Jesus College, Oxford, and left for the 1914 war: he was severely wounded and blinded, winning the V.C. He returned to Oxford after the war and graduated in law; Davies, who was an unusual mixture of roughness, tenderness, energy, impetuosity and chivalry, took affectionate care of him there.

scholarly journals MARTYR AL-ALAMA HAJ ALI MEKKI, A MARCH OF KNOWLEDGE AND JIHAD

2021 ◽  
Vol 03 (08) ◽  
pp. 193-213
Author(s):  
Hayat MEKKI
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Advanced Age ◽  
World War ◽  
Cultural Field ◽  
Firing Squad ◽  
Islamic Jurisprudence ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The Village ◽  
The Revolution

He learned in the corner of the children of Sheikh Boudaoud (Daoud Al-Din) , ‎then moved to the corner of Sheikh Bin Ali Al-Sharif in Jabal Akbu, then he ‎moved to the corner of Sheikh Muhammad Abu Al-Qasim (Al-Hamil) to ‎study jurisprudence and monotheism and obtained a Certificate of principals in ‎jurisprudence and monotheism, especially the obligatory duties, then he ‎worked as an employee in the children's house of Sidi Sheikh Bin Al-Nazir ‎‎(Positively). He also worked as a teacher for a long time and called for building ‎schools and built some of them with his own money. He moved in many parts ‎of the country, performed the Hajj pilgrimage in 1935 AD, and during his ‎travels, he became acquainted with scholars. Evacuated like the leader Husseini, he was influenced by Imam Abdul Hamid ‎bin Badis and his case, he was exposed to several harassment by the colonial ‎authorities during World War II because of his activities in the Association of ‎Scholars Muslims and his land was confiscated and he was prevented from ‎practicing his activity, until the glorious liberation revolution broke out in ‎which he participated in it with all his might, despite his advanced age, he was ‎imprisoned in 1955 AD, and was martyred on April 24, 1959 AD by firing ‎squad.‎ Shot with his brothers the 74 martyrs in the battle of Kingfisher Mansoura. He ‎left one son and six daughters. The researcher who wrote the article is the ‎granddaughter of the martyr Allama to his eldest daughter, Lalla Barakam, born ‎in 1926 in Mansoura, Wilayat of Bordj Bou Arreridj, may God have mercy on ‎him, may his soul rest in peace, his immaculate body is buried in his hometown ‎in the village of Ahl Al-Hamra district of Mansoura. He also left in the cultural ‎field a rich library and manuscripts in Islamic jurisprudence and ordinances‎‎‎. Keywords: Hajj Ali Makki, Martyrs of the Revolution, March of Science and Jihad

Tai O Village

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ken Nicolson
Keyword(s):  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Policy Planning ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Strong Bond ◽  
Fishing Village ◽  
Salt Pans ◽  
The Village

Case study 4: TaI O Village is a scenic, stilted fishing village which is an excellent example of an organically evolved and associative cultural landscape. In addition to fishing, Tai O was renowned for its salt pans and production of shrimp paste. The physical fabric of the village is largely intact despite many threats and pressures for change over many generations. Despite recent attempts by government authorities to ‘revitalise’ the village for tourism, resettle the villagers from the stilt houses, as well as natural disasters, such as, typhoons, flooding, and devastating fires, the villagers have a very strong bond that allows them to rebound after each setback with a passion for conserving their way of life. Tai O offers a valuable contrast to the fortunes of Ping Shan and underlines the importance of adopting an integrated approach to conservation that ensures that the policy, planning, and project levels of intervention put the interests and aspirations of residents first.

scholarly journals Henry Frederick Baker, 1866-1956

1956 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 49-68 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Mathematical Work ◽  
Grammar School ◽  
School Subject ◽  
Regular School ◽  
Science And Art ◽  
Animal Physiology ◽  
Present Generation ◽  
And Mathematics

Henry Frederick Baker, who died in Cambridge on 17 March 1956, was at the time of his death the senior Fellow of the Royal Society, having been elected in 1898. To the present generation of mathematicians he is known chiefly as the founder of a vigorous school of geometry, but in fact his contributions to knowledge in that field, to which the second half of his life was devoted, only represent about half of his mathematical work, and the range which he covered goes far beyond the bounds of geometry. While much of his earlier work has been overtaken by the march of time, his contributions to the theory of functions, differential equations, and continuous groups had in their day as much influence as his later work on geometry, and any attempt to review Baker’s contributions to mathematics must take as much account of his early work as of his later contributions. Baker was born in Cambridge on 3 July 1866, the son of Henry Baker and his wife Sarah Anne. Little is known about his early years in Cambridge, but at the age of eleven he came under instruction from the Rev. Frederick Hatt, later headmaster of Moulton Grammar School, Spalding, who sent him in for the examinations of the Science and Art Department of the Committee in Council on Education. The examinations were on sound, light and heat, electricity and magnetism, animal physiology, physiography, geology, and mathematics. In later years, Baker referred to this period of his life more than once, attributing to the instruction he then received his lasting interest in natural science, and in particular he gratefully acknowledged the debt he owed to Mr Hatt. Except for mathematics, which was a regular school subject, the instruction he received consisted of one lecture a week on each subject. The pupils took no notes, and little practical work was done, but they were encouraged to do things for themselves.

scholarly journals Richard Friedrich Johannes Pfeiffer, 1858-1945

1956 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 237-247 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Medical Service ◽  
Early Education ◽  
Medical Science ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Iron Curtain ◽  
Family Resources ◽  
Army Medical ◽  
The Family ◽  
Foreign Member

Richard Pfeiffer, one of the pioneers of bacteriology and an assistant of Robert Koch, was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society in 1928 at the age of 70. Twenty-seven years later inquiry revealed that he was still alive in 1945 behind the Iron Curtain, but that since then all trace of him had been lost. It is now known that he died on 15 September 1945 aged 87 years. Richard Pfeiffer was born on 27 March 1858 at Zduny, Posen, the eldest son of Otto Pfeiffer, a clergyman, and received his early education at Schweidnitz whither the family had removed. He passed out of the Gymnasium at the age of 17. He always had the ambition to study the natural sciences and medicine, but the family resources made a University career impossible. He was, however, fortunate in being accepted as a pupil in the exclusive ‘Pepiniere’ (afterwards the Kaiser Wilhelm Akademie). The purpose of this institution was to train boys to enter the Army Medical Service, and a number of its pupils had become leading bacteriologists. Education at the ‘Pepiniere’ was therefore a distinct step towards a career in medical science.

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