scholarly journals William Hume-Rothery, 1899-1968

1969 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 109-139 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Trinity College ◽  
British Museum ◽  
The North ◽  
University College ◽  
University College London ◽  
City Of London ◽  
The City ◽  
Member Of Parliament

William Hume-Rothery was born on 15 May 1899. His hyphenated surname reflects his immediate ancestry; his grandfather, William Rothery, was a clergyman of advanced views, who married Mary Hume, an authoress, with whom he shared an interest in poetry. Mary was the daughter of Joseph Hume, who died in 1855. He was a Member of Parliament, of radical persuasions, a Freeman of the City of London, one of the founders of University College London, and was concerned in the development of the British Museum. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society, and was one of the movers of the 1832 Reform Bill. There is evidence that he was economyminded, particularly in relation to the Privy Purse, which did not particularly commend him to his Sovereign. William and his wife, who took the name Hume-Rothery, lived for some time in the North of England, but eventually, at about the time of William’s resignation from the Ministry, moved south to Cheltenham. Their son, Joseph Hume Hume-Rothery (our William Hume-Rothery’s father) was born in 1866, and lived at Cheltenham until his own marriage to Ellen Maria Carter. Joseph never went to school; he was educated by tutors, and it is a tribute both to him and to them that he took First-class Honours in Physics at London University (1886), became a Scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge, and was 16th Wrangler in 1890. He then read Law and was called to the Bar in 1893. After his marriage, Joseph and his wife moved to Worcester Park, Surrey, and it was here that William Hume-Rothery was born. Finding his work as a patents lawyer somewhat uncongenial, Joseph and his family returned to Cheltenham, where their son William, with two young sisters, spent most of his childhood

scholarly journals X. Observations on a Grant of an Advowson of a Chantry to a Guild in 34 Henry VI., exhibited by Joseph Jackson Howard, Esq. F.S.A.

Archaeologia ◽  
1860 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-148
Author(s):  
Weston Styleman Walford
Keyword(s):  
New Work ◽  
The North ◽  
North Side ◽  
The Gift ◽  
Henry Vi ◽  
City Of London ◽  
The City ◽  
Brothers And Sisters

The Deed exhibited this evening by Mr. Joseph Jackson Howard has appeared to me sufficiently interesting to justify a few remarks on its contents. It bears date the 7th of August 1456 (34 Hen. VI.). By it Richard Acreman granted to John Oudene, master of the fraternity or guild of St. George of the Men of the Mystery of Armourers of the city of London, to John Ruttour and William Terry, the wardens, and to the brothers and sisters of the same guild the advowson of or right of presenting a chaplain to the chantry which Joan, formerly the wife of Nicholas de Wokyndon, Knight, founded at the altar of St. Thomas the Martyr in the new work of the cathedral church of St. Paul, London, viz. on the north side of the same church; which altar was, at the time of this grant, placed in the chapel then commonly called the chapel of St. George within the said church, in which chapel the said guild was then lately founded and established by King Henry VI.: this advowson the said Richard Acreman had of the grant of Thomas Coburley and Thomas Burghille, who had it (inter alia) of the gift of Richard Bastard of Bedford and Isabella his wife, who was kinswoman and heiress of the said Nicholas de Wokyndon. The deed was witnessed by William Marwe, the Mayor of the city of London, and John Yonge and Thomas Ouldegreve, the Sheriffs.

scholarly journals George Barker Jeffery, 1891-1957

1958 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 128-137 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Military Service ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Applied Mathematics ◽  
London Mathematical Society ◽  
First Year ◽  
Conscientious Objector ◽  
Active Service ◽  
University College ◽  
University College London ◽  
Short Time

George Barker Jeffery was born on 9 May 1891. He came from a Quaker family, and remained a Quaker all his life. He was educated at Strand School, King’s College, and Wilson’s Grammar School, Camberwell. In 1909 he entered University College, London, to begin a course, common at that time, of two years at the college to be followed by one year’s training as a teacher. He was not an entrance scholar, but his work in mathematics showed so much promise that he was elected to a scholarship in mathematics at the end of his first year. In 1911 he entered the London Day Training College for his teacher’s training. It was there that he met Elizabeth Schofield, whom he married in 1915. However he had already commenced mathematical research, and he read his first paper (1)* before the Royal Society in June 1912, the month following his twenty-first birthday. His later career showed how great an impression had been made upon him by his year’s training as a teacher. However, after it was over he returned to University College as a research student and assistant to L. N. G. Filon, who was then Professor of Applied Mathematics. He always had a great admiration for Filon, though this was not uncritical, as is shown by the obituary notices which he later wrote for the Royal Society, the London Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association. In 1914 Filon went away on active service, and Jeffery, aged 23, was left in charge of the Department of Applied Mathematics. In 1916 he was elected a Fellow of University College. However, as a Quaker he had a conscientious objection to performing military service, so that he could not do this, nor was he allowed to remain at the college. In 1916 he spent a short time in prison as a ‘conscientious objector’, though later he was allowed to undertake ‘work of national importance’. In 1919, when the war was over, he returned to the college, again as an assistant to Filon. In spite of all the difficulties of the war period he had, as the list of his publications shows, maintained a steady output of original work. In 1921 he was promoted to the grade of University Reader in Mathematics.

scholarly journals Arthur Mannering Tyndall, 1881-1961

1962 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 159-165 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Private School ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
Physical Laboratory ◽  
University College ◽  
The Subject ◽  
University Of Bristol ◽  
The University ◽  
The City ◽  
Outstanding Teacher

Arthur Mannering Tyndall was a man who played a leading part in the establishment of research and teaching in physics in one of the newer universities of this country. His whole career was spent in the University of Bristol, where he was Lecturer, Professor and for a while Acting ViceChancellor, and his part in guiding the development of Bristol from a small university college to a great university was clear to all who knew him. He presided over the building and development of the H. H. Wills Physical Laboratory, and his leadership brought it from its small beginnings to its subsequent achievements. His own work, for which he was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society, was on the mobility of gaseous ions. Arthur Tyndall was born in Bristol on 18 September 1881. He was educated at a private school in Bristol where no science was taught, except a smattering of chemistry in the last two terms. Nonetheless he entered University College, obtaining the only scholarship offered annually by the City of Bristol for study in that college and intending to make his career in chemistry. However, when brought into contact with Professor Arthur Chattock, an outstanding teacher on the subject, he decided to switch to physics; he always expressed the warmest gratitude for the inspiration that he had received from him. He graduated with second class honours in the external London examination in 1903. In that year he was appointed Assistant Lecturer, was promoted to Lecturer in 1907, and became Lecturer in the University when the University College became a university in 1909. During this time he served under Professor A. P. Chattock, but Chattock retired in 1910 at the age of 50 and Tyndall became acting head of the department. Then, with the outbreak of war, he left the University to run an army radiological department in Hampshire.

scholarly journals Natural Knowledge, Inc.: the Royal Society as a metropolitan corporation

2019 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-271
Author(s):  
NOAH MOXHAM
Keyword(s):  
Early Development ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Knowledge Communities ◽  
Knowledge Community ◽  
Natural Knowledge ◽  
Internal Organization ◽  
Limited Power ◽  
City Of London ◽  
The City

AbstractThis article attempts to think through the logic and distinctiveness of the early Royal Society's position as a metropolitan knowledge community and chartered corporation, and the links between these aspects of its being. Among the knowledge communities of Restoration London it is one of the best known and most studied, but also one of the least typical and in many respects one of the least coherent. It was also quite unlike the chartered corporations of the City of London, exercising almost none of their ordinary functions and being granted very limited power and few responsibilities. I explore the society's imaginative and material engagements with longer-established corporate bodies, institutions and knowledge communities, and show how those encounters repeatedly reshaped the early society's internal organization, outward conduct and self-understanding. Building on fundamental work by Michael Hunter, Adrian Johns, Lisa Jardine and Jim Bennett, and new archival evidence, I examine the importance of the city to the society's foundational rhetoric and the shifting orientation of its search for patronage, the development of its charter, and how it learned to interpret the limits and possibilities of its privileges through its encounters with other chartered bodies, emphasizing the contingent nature of its early development.

The Fifteenth-Century Garner at Leadenhall, London

1989 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Samuel
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Common Market ◽  
The West ◽  
Dual Purpose ◽  
Ground Plan ◽  
Documentary Sources ◽  
The North ◽  
City Of London ◽  
The City ◽  
Full Height

Excavation and observations from 1984–6 on the Leadenhall Court site in the City of London revealed elements of the fifteenth-century market building known as ‘The Leadenhall’. The truncated foundations were located in various areas of the site; 177 medieval moulded stones were found reused in later cellar walls; and a fragment of the west wall survived to its full height of 11.17m encased between Victorian buildings. The recording and subsequent study of these features, together with a reassessment of such plans and drawings of the building as have survived, established the ground plan of the quadrangle and chapel, and made possible a complete reconstruction of the north range of this important civic building. The methodology used in the reconstructions is described with particular emphasis upon the analysis of the moulded stones. In conclusion, both the design of the structure and the documentary sources are studied to show how it may have been intended to function.The arcaded ground floor functioned as part of a common market, while the upper floors were intended to be a granary. For convenience, however, this dual-purpose building is referred to as the ‘garner’ throughout the text.

Editorial. An Italian correspondence, an Italian earthquake and the homes of The Royal Society

2005 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Terry Quinn
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
College Professors ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Christopher Wren ◽  
City Of London ◽  
The City ◽  
The Mansion ◽  
Italian Earthquake

Introduction to the January 2005 issue of Notes and Records with a reproduction of an engraving by Nehemiah Grew, date unknown. The engraving shows Gresham College, Bishopsgate, London, the mansion of Sir Thomas Gresham and the original home of The Royal Society from 1660–1710, except for a short period just after the Great Fire of London when the Society was at Arundel House. The Society was founded at Gresham College following a lecture by Christopher Wren, at that time Gresham Professor of Astronomy. The College was named after Sir Thomas Gresham, son of Sir Richard Gresham, Lord Mayor of London (1537–38), who conceived the idea, brought to fruition by his son, of the Royal Exchange modelled on the Antwerp Bourse. Gresham College professors continue to give free public lectures in the City of London.

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