John William Strutt, third baron Rayleigh, O.M., F.R.S., sometime president of the Royal society and chancellor of the University of Cambridge / by his son Robert John Strutt, fourth baron Rayleigh.

  • Rayleigh, Robert John Strutt, Baron, 1875-1947.
Date:
1924
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Credit: John William Strutt, third baron Rayleigh, O.M., F.R.S., sometime president of the Royal society and chancellor of the University of Cambridge / by his son Robert John Strutt, fourth baron Rayleigh. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER IV EARLY MARRIED LIFE Lord Eustace Cecil, younger brother of the third Lord Salisbury, was at this time M.P. for West Essex, and as such had been a guest at Terling. Strutt dined at his house in London in 1869, and there met Eleanor and Evelyn Balfour, the elder sisters of his Cambridge friend Arthur Balfour, and nieces of the host. Eleanor Balfour, who was placed next him, had been very much impressed by hearing that he was a Senior Wrangler, but did not find him so formidable as she had expected. That summer he went to stay with Lord and Lady Salis¬ bury at Hatfield and there he met Arthur Balfour, who had probably suggested that he should be invited, and his two sisters. He was invited to come back to their home, Whittinge- hame, in East Lothian. Their father James Maitland Balfour, was dead, and their mother, Lady Blanche Balfour, was an invalid, practically confined to her room. There were other friends and relations there, and the time was spent in large riding parties, in picnics, and in playing croquet. The next summer (1870) the visit to Whittingehame was repeated. Evelyn Balfour was fond of music. He lent her Helmholtz’s Sensations of Tone, which discusses the subject from a scientific standpoint, and which, though profound, is not a difficult book. This was one fruitful topic of common interest. From Whittingehame he went with Arthur Balfour to the British Association at Liverpool. Arthur Balfour was amused to watch his encounter with a circle-squarer, one of those curious camp-followers of science