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of age; a man of considerable classical attainments, and author of "Plataea and Olympia" and other topographical studies in Greece. _me me_, Elizabeth, nee COKE, a woman of considerable artistic ability. _me me fa_, Thomas William COKE (1752-1842), of Holkham, was created Earl of LEICESTER; M.P. for Norfolk, 1776-1806, and 1807-1832; favoured Protection and Parliamentary Reform; introduced modern methods into agriculture; a famous improver of stock.--["Dict. N. Biog."] _fa_, Percival Andree PICKERING, Q.C., Fellow of St. John's Coll., Cambridge; Judge of Passage Court; Attorney-General for County Palatine; author of classical essays and works on Parliamentary law. _me_, Anna Maria Wilhelmina, nee SPENCER STANHOPE, of decided literary and classical ability; author of "Memoirs" recently published. _fa bro_, Edward Hayes PICKERING, Captain of Montem, Eton; Fellow of St. John's Coll., Cambridge; died young. _me bro_, Sir Walter Thomas William SPENCER STANHOPE (b. 1827), K.C.B., first-class in Mathematics, Oxford, 1848; M.P. West Riding of Yorkshire, S. division, 1872-1880, and 1882-1890.--["Who's Who."] _me bro_, John Roddam SPENCER STANHOPE, artist. _si_, Mary Evelyn DE MORGAN artist. _si_, Anna Maria Diana Wilhelmina STIRLING, author of novels and tales under the name of Percival PICKERING. Sir William #RAMSAY# (b. 1852), K.C.B., LL.D., D.Sc., Ph.D., F.R.S., F.C.S.; Professor of Chemistry, University Coll., London, since 1887; sometime Professor of Chemistry and Principal of University Coll., Bristol; has published numerous important scientific papers.--["Who's Who."] _fa fa_, William RAMSAY, manufacturing chemist; first made acetic acid from wood; discovered bi-chrome; President of the first Chemical Society, Glasgow, 1796, which was merged in the Glasgow Philosophical Society, 1802. _fa bro_, Sir Andrew Crombie RAMSAY (1814-1891), F.R.S., Professor of Geology, University Coll., London, 1847; Director-General of the Geological Survey, 1871.--["Dict. N. Biog."] _mo bro_, Robert ROBERTSON, editor of a daily London paper (about 1835). #RAYLEIGH#, Lord.--See STRUTT. Clement #REID#, F.R.S., District Geologist on Survey of England and Wales; author of many works on Geology.--["Who's Who."] _si_, Margery Anna REID, B.Sc., London; science mistress at Ladies' Coll., Cheltenham; very successful as a teacher. _me bro son_, Harold Leslie BARNARD, surgeon, and i
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