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            Hope W 2f 1t

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            Hutchinson, W. 1f

Inglis, Alexander (1845-1921) Born Fordyce, Banffshire 26th January 1845, died in Adelaide, South Australia 1st May 1921. Became a merchant seaman about 1860, master 1870-80. Then became the Examiner of Masters and Mates in South Australia. From 1881-1915 he was the harbour master of Port Adelaide. In 1891 he built a tide predicter.

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Jevons, William Stanley (1835-1882), economist and logician, was born in Alfred Street, Liverpool. His father is believed to have constructed the first iron boat. He received his early training at the Mechanics' Institute High School and at the private school of a Mr. Beckwith in Liverpool, and at the age of fifteen was sent to London to attend University College School, whence in October 1851 he proceeded to University College. Towards the close of 1853 he accepted the appointment of assayer to the new mint of Sydney in Australia. He spent two months in Paris to study assaying, and reached Sydney in October 1854. He reached Liverpool in September, and soon afterwards attended lectures at University College, London, in the company of his younger brother, with whom and his sisters he lived in lodgings at Paddington for the ensuing four years. He found the classes dull, but heartily admired De Morgan as ‘an unfathomable fund of mathematics.’ In June 1862 he passed the M.A. examination of the university of London, gaining the gold medal in philosophy and political economy. He married Harriet Ann Taylor. 

During the thirteen years of his residence at Manchester Jevons was, above all, engaged in researches and speculations connected with the science of logic. He had become discontented with Mill, and resented Mill's indifference to Boole's speculations. In his ‘Pure Logic’ (1864) he had already put forward a system based on the conclusions of Boole, and in the following year he completed the construction of his ‘reasoning machine, or logical abacus, adapted to show the working of Boole's logic in a half mechanical manner,’ which in March and April 1866 he exhibited to the Liverpool and Manchester Literary and Philosophical Societies. 

The most important, however, of this group of his works was his ‘Principles of Science,’ 2 vols., 1874; 2nd edit., 1 vol., 1877. In this book, with illustrations derived from almost every branch of scientific research, he developed his theory of logic and scientific method, and of its applicability beyond and, so to speak, above the sphere of physical science alone. This work proved more stimulative to mathematicians than to metaphysicians. 

In 1872 he had been made a F.R.S.; in 1874-5 he examined for the moral science tripos at Cambridge; in 1875 he received an honorary doctorate at Edinburgh; and in 1876 he was appointed examiner in logic and mental and moral philosophy in the university of London. He sent 1 tidal letter and received 1.

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Macalister, Sir Donald (1854-1934), physician, principal and vice-chancellor and, later, chancellor of the university of Glasgow, was born at Perth. He had not only to provide for his own education but, in his early manhood, to bear the greater part of the maintenance and education of his younger brothers and sisters. After attending various schools, MacAlister went in 1866 to Liverpool Institute to whose teaching and guidance MacAlister owed much. In 1873 he entered St. John's College, Cambridge, as a scholar, though also elected elsewhere. He read mathematics, and finished his course in January 1877 as senior wrangler and first Smith's prizeman. In November 1877 he was elected into a fellowship at St. John's. He remained a fellow of the college until the end of his life, and was senior tutor from 1900 to 1904. 

After a brief and happy interlude as a mathematical master at Harrow, MacAlister turned to his original intention of studying medicine, first at Cambridge, later in 1879 at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and for a short time at Leipzig. In 1881 he settled in Cambridge, and took up medical teaching, investigation, and practice, and in 1884, when he graduated M.D., of physician to Addenbrooke's Hospital. He was elected F.R.C.P. in 1886. 

MacAlister married Edith Florence Boyle. A portrait of MacAlister was painted in 1924. Glasgow University commissioned one to be painted, which is now in the senate room. A replica of the portrait by Greiffenhagen was presented to his wife, together with a bust by George Paulin. He sent 1 tidal letter.

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Moriarty, Henry Augustus (1815-1906), captain in the navy, was born in the signal tower on Dursey Island, co. Cork. He was educated at Portsmouth, and entered the navy on 18 Dec. 1829. In 1857 and in 1858 Moriarty was appointed to navigate the line-of-battle ship Agamemnon, lent by the admiralty to lay the first Atlantic telegraph cable. He navigated the Great Eastern in 1865 and 1866 when she was employed in laying the second and third Transatlantic cables; and, when the cable broke in mid ocean in 1865, he fixed the position so accurately as to ensure the subsequent recovery of the broken end. When the Great Eastern had hooked the lost cable and was heaving it up to her bows, the mark-buoy placed by Moriarty was bumping against the ship's side. In Dec. 1867 he  was appointed to Portsmouth dockyard as assistant master attendant, becoming master attendant and Queen's harbour-master in Nov. 1869. After his retirement he was occasionally employed as nautical assessor to the judicial committee of the privy council, and frequently as nautical expert before parliamentary committees, among which those on Barry Docks, the Tay Bridge, the Forth Bridge, and the Tower Bridge may be mentioned. His chief publications were four volumes of sailing directions (1887-93), compiled for the admiralty, and the articles on ‘Log,’ ‘Navigation,’ and ‘Seamanship’ in the ‘Encyclopædia Britannica’ (9th edit.).

Moriarty married (1) Lavinia Charlotte Foster, by whom he had two sons and two daughters; (2) in 1875 Harriet Elizabeth Avent of St. Budeaux, Devonshire. He sent 1 tidal letter.

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Neison, Edmund (1849-1940): (born: Edmund Neville Nevill) FRAS 1873 (obit: Monthly Notices of R.A.S. v101 137-9 1941). Arrived in Durban 1882 appointed compiler of the official Tide Tables for the Colony. The Nevill Diaries 1980 M.A. Gray. 3f 1t

            Parkes, William, (fl. 1867-85) civil engineer of Karachi Harbour.

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Pasco, Crawford Atchison Denman (1818-1898) naval officer was born in Plymouth. As a lieutenant his father had made Nelson's famous signal. Pasco entered the navy at 12 and when he retired, settled in Victoria. There he became a founder member of the Victorian branch of the Geographical Society in 1884. 1f 1t

Pearson, James (1825-1886) Reverend, was born in Preston, where he was educated at the Grammar School and then Trinity College, Cambridge. He became FRAS. His system of tide computation was adopted by the Admiralty for north-west coast of England; he designed and erected on the pier at Fleetwood a novel contrivance for registering  the height of the tides; and was author of 'The elements of the calculus of finite differences' and a 'Treatise on the tides'. He died at Fleetwood. (Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, xlvi 139-40 1887.)

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Plummer, William Edward (1849-1929) was born in Greenwich. At the age of fifteen he entered the Royal Observatory as a supernumerary computer attached to the astronomical department. In 1892 the Directorship of the Liverpool Observatory fell vacant and he was appointed to the office, in which he remained until the end of his life. The observatory was a part of Mersey Docks and Harbour Board. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1879, serving on its council to 1894. He wrote three tidal letters. (Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, LXXXIX 4 320-3 Feb. 1929).

            Rennie J 2f Kelvin's secretary.

Ritchie, Sir Richmond Thackeray Willoughby (1854-1912), civil servant, was born at Calcutta. His family had been distinguished in Indian annals for three generations. He was educated at Eton, where he was a King's scholar and Newcastle medallist, and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where also he held a scholarship, and was one of a brilliant coterie. In 1877 he entered the India Office as a junior clerk. From 1883 to 1892 he acted as private secretary to a succession of parliamentary under-secretaries of state for India, including Sir John Gorst and (Lord) Curzon. From October 1892 to February 1894 he was private secretary to the permanent under-secretary, Sir Arthur Godley (afterwards Lord Kilbracken); and in May 1895 he was appointed secretary to the royal commission on Indian expenditure. The last appointment he gave up after a few weeks in order to become private secretary to the secretary of state for India, Lord George Hamilton; this post he held for seven years. Ritchie, in November 1902, was appointed secretary in the political and secret department of the India Office. Ritchie married Anne Isabella Thackeray. He sent 1 tidal letter.

Roberts, Edward (1845-1933), born in Deptford Broadway on May 1st 1845, was educated at the Greenwich Proprietary School under the Rev. Thomas Goodwin, LLD., where he gained many prizes, mainly in chemistry and mathematics. On leaving school in 1860 he was introduced by the Rev. R. Main, then first assistant, and given a place on the staff at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich.

He was appointed to the Nautical Almanac Office in 1864, from which he retired in 1907. While there, in addition to the routine work of computing and observing, he was engaged on extraneous work by the Astronomer Royal and Mr. Main, where his varied experience led to his eventual status of Chief Assistant. He impressed others with the extraordinary neatness of his work and the beauty of his figures, both of which features he combined with extraordinary speed and accuracy. He also had an odd ability to drop straight on an error that had defied its maker in perhaps half an hour's search, and it is certain that in this particular he never had his equal in the office.

Roberts undertook much scientific with Professor John C. Adams, and served as secretary to the Ships Stability (Admiralty) Commission 1871. Roberts' association with Lord Kelvin (then Sir William Thomson), who used to boast of his inability to add up a laundry bill, was a most fortunate incident for the younger man, and gave him a chance to take the significant share of the design and production of the original tide machine, so courageously ordered by the India Office. He constructed his last and most complete machine in 1906. He worked on this at his son's house, 7 Blessington Road in Lewisham, until 1926. As a model of the world, this impressed his grandson, Tony Hilton Royle Skyrme, who referred to it afterwards as allegorical during his own work on the Manhatten Project. (Tony Hilton Royle Skyrme, ‘The origins of Skyrmions’, International Journal of Modern Physics, A3 (1988), 2745-2751.)  These predicters and later counterparts carry on mechanically the work of Roberts's industrious pen.

With Alexander Lége, Roberts designed the twenty component tide predicter for the India Office in 1878. The machine was originally housed at the India Store in Lambeth. Roberts co-authored Tide Tables for the Indian Ports from 1880 to 1906. While he remained on the establishment of the Nautical Almanac Office, initially with the support of Thomson, he arrived at a point of only working on tides. However, in 1896 the National Physical Laboratory at Teddington took over the Indian tide tables from the Nautical Almanac. Then in 1906 Roberts' place on the establishment of the almanac, and his connection with those tide tables, was determined. The special circumstances of 1914 brought him into the Hydrographic Office. There he contributed a special calculation for the heights and times of the tides at every hour for Ostende for the Navy, as well as the prediction of the tides of the German naval ports. In those years he lived at Eltham.

Edward and his wife Louisa had thirteen children altogether (Professor Tony Hilton Royle Skyrme is their descendent.) Roberts formed a company, E. Roberts & Son, to produce tidal predictions, at about the turn of the century. He named this son after Kelvin: Herbert William Thomson Roberts, who became FRAS in1919 and also sat on tidal committees. The death of H.W.T.R. was recorded at the society in February 1930; upon which the predicting business was transferred to the Liverpool Tidal Institute. His then surviving son, E. G. L. Roberts, wrote to Arthur Doodson, with news that his father was glad that the machines were in good hands.

Edward Roberts died on August 4th 1933, having been elected FRAS on 1872 February 9. (Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 94 1934 p284.) He became Fellow of the Statistical Society in 1882, was awarded the Imperial Service Order in 1907, and acted as a Justice of the Peace (The Times, Obituary). He wrote at least 102 tidal letters, mostly to Adams, Darwin and Thomson; and five of the letters that he received have survived.  Portrait

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Robinson, Sir William Cleaver Francis (1834-1897), colonial governor. He entered the colonial service in 1855 as private secretary to his elder brother. He married Olivia Edith Dean Townsend. He received 1 tidal letter.

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