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nventor of apparatus for testing blood-pressure. _me me bro_, Michael FARADAY (1791-1867), F.R.S., Fullerian Professor Royal Institution; famous chemist and electrician; started his scientific career as assistant to Sir Humphry Davy.--["Dict. N. Biog."] _me fa bro_, George BARNARD, landscape artist and author of many books on drawing and painting. _me fa bro son_, Frederick BARNARD (1846-1896), artist and caricaturist; illustrator of Dickens, contributor to "Punch," etc.--["Dict. N. Biog."] Sir Henry Enfield #ROSCOE#, Ph.D., LL.D., D.C.L., F.R.S., Professor of Chemistry Owens College, Manchester, 1857-1887; President Society of Chemical Industry, 1881; of Chemical Society, 1882; knighted, 1884; M.P. for S. division of Manchester, 1885-1895; President of Brit. Assoc., 1887; Vice-Chancellor of the University of London, 1896-1902; author of many memoirs and works on chemistry.--["Who's Who."] _fa fa_, William ROSCOE (1753-1831), historian, poet, and philanthropist; author of "Lives of Lorenzo de' Medici," of "Leo X.," and of several volumes of verse; M.P. for Liverpool, 1806-1807; promoter and first President of its Royal Institution.--["Dict. N. Biog."] _fa_, Henry ROSCOE (1800-1836), biographer, including Life of his father.--["Dict. N. Biog."] _fa bro_, Thomas ROSCOE (1791-1871), miscellaneous writer and translator.--["Dict. N. Biog."] _fa bro_, William Stanley ROSCOE, poet.--["Dict. N. Biog."] _fa bro_, Robert ROSCOE, poet, wrote "King Alfred." _me_, Maria, nee FLETCHER, artist and authoress, wrote "Life of Vittoria Colonna." _me si_, Harriet FLETCHER, authoress of "Tales for Children." _fa bro son_, William Caldwell ROSCOE (1822-1859), poet and essayist.--["Dict. N. Biog."] _fa si son_, William Stanley JEVONS (1835-1882), F.R.S., economist and logician; Professor of Logic and Political Economy at Owens Coll., 1866-1879; at University Coll., London, 1876-1880; influential writer.--["Dict. N. Biog."] _me si son_, Rt. Hon. Charles BOOTH, P.C., F.R.S. (q.v.). _me si son_, Charles CROMPTON.--See BOOTH. _me si son_, Henry CROMPTON.--See BOOTH. #ROSSE#, fourth Earl of.--See PARSONS. Edward John #ROUTH# (b. 1831), Sc.D., Camb., Sc.D. (hon.), Dublin, LL.D. (hon.) Glasgow, F.R.S., Senior Wrangler and Smith's prize, 1854; Adams prize, 1877; has had twenty-seven Senior Wranglers and more than forty Smith's Prizemen for pupils. Author of
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