scholarly journals Hugh Scott, 1885-1960

1961 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 229-242
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Trinity College ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Art Music ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Private Tutor ◽  
London Stock Exchange ◽  
Preparatory School ◽  
Music And Literature ◽  
The Family

Hugh Scott was born on 16 September 1885, at Lee, London, S.E., the son of William Edward Scott (1855-1920), of the London Stock Exchange and grandson of George Robert Scott (1817-1888), also of the London Stock Exchange. His mother was Edith Truscott, daughter of James Chapman Amos Truscott, M.Inst.C.E., and of Jane Wyatt Truscott. On his father’s side he was a direct descendant of the family of Scott of Scot’s-Hall in East Kent, a family which has been traced back for some centuries. Hugh Scott’s own family circumstances were at first modest but his father prospered and in 1896 moved to London. The parents were cultivated, fond of art, music and literature and lovers of travel but had no particular interest in any branch of natural history. Scott’s development as a naturalist cannot in fact be attributed to any family or ancestral influence. Like many boys, he began to collect butterflies—at about the age of seven—but while this kind of thing is usually a passing phase, like stamp collecting, it became, with Hugh Scott, his life-interest. However, his special passion, the love of natural history expeditions, was probably fostered by the frequent vacation journeys on which he accompanied his parents, from about the age of ten. Throughout his life Hugh Scott was handicapped by rather vague but no less real ill-health. This caused his removal, first from a preparatory school in Blackheath and then from Westminster School to which he had won a classical entrance Exhibition, but left after little more than a term. Nevertheless, under a private tutor, he passed the London Matriculation 1st class, in 1903 and the Cambridge ‘Little-Go’, the same summer. He entered Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1903, passed the first M.B. examination in 1904, won an Exhibition at Trinity in March 1906 and a First Class in the Natural Sciences Tripos, Part I, in June 1906.

scholarly journals Francis Thomas Bacon, 21 December 1904 - 24 May 1992

1994 ◽  
Vol 39 ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Trinity College ◽  
Francis Bacon ◽  
Elizabeth I ◽  
Royal Navy ◽  
Science And Engineering ◽  
Preparatory School ◽  
Heat Engines ◽  
Queen Elizabeth I ◽  
The Family ◽  
New Atlantis

Francis Thomas Bacon, known to all his friends as Tom, was a gentleman scientist with impeccable antecedents. He was a direct descendant of Sir Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal in the time of Queen Elizabeth I. Sir Nicholas’s son by his second marriage was Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626), Lord Keeper of the Great Seal in the time of James the First, the author of Bacon’s Esay, Novum Organum, The New Atlantis , etc., who became Baron Verulam, Viscount St Albans. He persuaded his contemporaries that a scientific society should be founded in England; this led to the formation of the Royal Society itself. It is also quite possible that Tom was a descendant of the family of Roger Bacon of Oxford (1214-1294) who also was a pioneer of science. Tom Bacon was born at Ramsden Hall, Billericay. His father, Thomas Walter Bacon (1863-1950) was an electrical engineer who, during the later years of the last century, had worked for the Eastern Telegraph Company, both in their workshops in London and in their cable ships. He encouraged his sons to aim for careers in science and engineering. Tom was educated first at St Peters Court Preparatory School in Broadstairs Kent; he had hoped for a career in the Royal Navy but was turned down for Osborne at the age of 12 owing to failing the eyesight test. He then went on to Eton from 1918 to 1922, gaining the School Physics Prize in 1922. From Eton Tom went up to Trinity College, Cambridge, taking the Mechanical Sciences Tripos in 1925. It was while he was at Cambridge that Bacon realized the significance of the Carnot limitation on the thermal efficiency of heat engines and this was to influence almost the whole of the rest of his life.

Sydney Arthur Monckton Copeman 1862-1947

1948 ◽  
Vol 6 (17) ◽  
pp. 37-50 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Trinity College ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Smallpox Vaccination ◽  
State Medicine ◽  
Anatomy And Physiology ◽  
Corpus Christi ◽  
The Family ◽  
University College London

Sydney Arthur Monckton Copeman was born at Norwich on 21 February- 1862; he died at Hove, after a brief illness, on 11 April 1947. His career as an investigator and administrator lay in the field of public health and he spent thirty-four years in the service of the Local Government Board and the Ministry of Health, inheriting, almost in direct succession, the traditions with which Sir John Simon had established State Medicine in this country. He will be remembered especially for the important improvements in smallpox vaccination that developed out of his studies of the bacteriology of calf lymph. Copeman was the eldest son of the Rev. Canon Arthur Charles Copeman, Canon and Rural Dean of Norwich; preceding generations of the family were private bankers in Norwich. His mother’s maiden name was Metcalfe; she came of a Norfolk family residing at Ingoldesthorpe Hall. Copeman’s choice of medicine as a career may have been influenced by the fact that Canon Copeman, before taking holy orders, obtained the M.B. London in 1848, and was gold medallist of his year (1844) in Anatomy and Physiology. Copeman was educated at King Edward VI School, Norwich, and at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, of which he was successively scholar, exhibitioner and prizeman. He obtained a second class in the Natural Sciences Tripos in 1882. He then went to St Thomas’s Hospital and took the M.B. of Cambridge in 1886. Copeman also acquired the diplomas of L.S.A., London (1885), L.R.C.P., London (1886), M.R.C.S., England (1887) and D.P.H., R.C.P.S. (1889). He proceeded to the M.D. of Cambridge in 1890 and was elected F.R.C.P. in 1899. In 1870, on Huxley’s recommendation, Trinity College had appointed Michael Foster of University College, London, as praelector and Fellow.

Mexican Culture, 1920–1945

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Delpar ◽  
Stephanie J. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Art Music ◽  
Preparatory School ◽  
Jose Vasconcelos ◽  
Music And Literature ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
Diego Rivera ◽  
Popular Art ◽  
Cultural Renewal ◽  
Mexican Culture ◽  
The Creation

Cultural nationalism characterized much of Mexico’s artistic and literary production during the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. Much as Mexico City’s centenary festivities in 1921 and the accompanying Exhibition of Popular Art celebrated Mexico’s resurgence from a decade of violent revolutionary struggles, the month-long event also foreshadowed an extraordinary flowering of art, music, and literature that would gain unprecedented international admiration, especially for the murals created by the three masters: Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros. During this vibrant era, contemporary intellectuals, composers, writers, and artists produced art that would serve as a nation-building tool to unite a country fractured by years of regional fighting. To many contemporaries, not only was this cultural renewal an expression of the forces and aspirations unleashed by the revolutionary process, but the various art forms also provided a bright beacon that lit the way for the creation an “authentic” Mexican national identity. In his role as the director of the Ministry of Public Education from 1921 to 1924, José Vasconcelos understood the influence of culture well. Indeed, as the initial sponsor of the mural movement, he first employed the three great muralists, as well as other artists, at the National Preparatory School. The creation of a national culture, though, went well beyond the work of Rivera, Orozco, and Siqueiros, as artists from other countries also participated in Mexico’s blossoming cultural environment. Women, too, played crucial roles in the production of Mexico’s revolutionary culture, and their striking influences continue in the early 21st century.

The Dupont family: collectors, dealers and naturalists in nineteenth-century Paris

2016 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Mearns ◽  
Laurent Chevrier ◽  
Christophe Gouraud
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Family History ◽  
Natural History ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Special Interest ◽  
Early Life ◽  
Anatomical Models ◽  
The Family ◽  
Small Collection

In the early part of the nineteenth century the Dupont brothers ran separate natural history businesses in Paris. Relatively little is known about their early life but an investigation into the family history at Bayeux corrects Léonard Dupont's year of birth from 1795 to 1796. In 1818 Léonard joined Joseph Ritchie's expedition to North Africa to assist in collecting and preparing the discoveries but he did not get beyond Tripoli. After 15 months he came back to Paris with a small collection from Libya and Provence, and returned to Provence in 1821. While operating as a dealer-naturalist in Paris he published Traité de taxidermie (1823, 1827), developed a special interest in foreign birds and became well known for his anatomical models in coloured wax. Henry Dupont sold a range of natural history material and with his particular passion for beetles formed one of the finest collections in Europe; his best known publication is Monographie des Trachydérides (1836–1840). Because the brothers had overlapping interests and were rarely referred to by their forenames there has been confusion between them and the various eponyms that commemorate them. Although probably true, it would be an over-simplification to state that birds of this era named for Dupont refer to Léonard Dupont, insects to Henry Dupont, and molluscs to their mother.

Trust and Regulation in Corporate Capital Markets before 1914

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leslie Hannah
Keyword(s):  
Capital Markets ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Securities Market ◽  
Market Development ◽  
Shareholder Rights ◽  
London Stock Exchange ◽  
Local Elites ◽  
Corporate Capital ◽  
Trust Networks

Historians have struggled to explain how stock markets could develop—with notable vigour in many countries before 1914—before modern shareholder protections were legally mandated. Trust networks among local elites—and/or information signalling to public investors—substituted for legal regulation, but this chapter suggests real limits to such processes. They are especially implausible when applied to giant companies with ownership substantially divorced from control, of which there were many with—nationally and internationally—dispersed shareholdings. In London—the largest pre-1914 securities market—strong supplementary supports for market development were provided by mandatory requirements for transparency and anti-director rights in UK statutory companies and by low new issue fees. There were also stringent London Stock Exchange requirements for other companies wanting the liquidity benefits of official listing. Shareholder rights were similarly achieved in Brazil and other countries and colonies dependent on British capital.

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