Hereditary genius : an inquiry into its laws and consequences / by Francis Galton.

  • Francis Galton
Date:
1892
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    Judge of the Sheriff’s Court for forty-five years ; a man of eminent business capacity. ws. William Burchell, most successfull man of business ; founder of important companies, as the first Electric Telegraph Company and the Metropolitan Railway. Lushington, Edmund; senior classic, 1832; Professor at Glasgow. GF. James Law, Bishop of Carlisle; author. GB. The 1st Lord Ellenborough, Chief Justice of the King’s Bench. (See under JUDGES.) B. Henry Lushington, 4th classic of his year ; Government Secretary at Malta. B. FRANKLIN LUSHINGTON, senior classic, 1846. B. Charles H. Lushington, Secretary to Government in India. The four following are descended from a second marriage ; they have the Lushington, but not the Law, blood. U. Stephen Rumbold Lushington, Privy Councillor ; Governor of Madras ; Secretary of the Treasury. [U.] General Sir James Lushington, K.C.B. [U.] Charles, Madras Civil Service ; Member of Council. US. Charles Hugh, Secretary to Government in India. The branch of the Lushington family from which Sir Stephen Lushington, D.C.L., the eminent ex-Judge of the Admiralty, is descended, diverged from the one we are now considering, in the fifth ascending generation from the two senior classics. This branch also contains a considerable number of men of sterling ability, and very few others. There are fully eleven distinguished men within three grades of relationship to Sir Stephen Lushington. Selwyn, Rev. Dr. William ; senior classic, 1828 ; Margaret Professor of Divinity at Cambridge. B. The Bishop of Lichfield, formerly Bishop of New Zealand ; 2d classic in 1831. B. Sir Jasper Selwyn, Judge; Lord Justice. 6. Miss Selwyn, eminent for philanthropical labours. (Crimean War, “ Home” at Birmingham.) Sidgwick, H.; senior classic, 1859. B. 2d classic, 1863. B. Able scholar ; Senior Tutor of Merton College, Oxford, GuS., GUPS., and guPS. Dr. Benson, Head Master of Wellington College, is related, though distantly,
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