Obituary notices of Fellows deceased. Lord Kelvin / J.L.

  • Larmor, Joseph, 1857-1942.
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[1908]
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    WILLIAM THOMSON, LORD KELVIN. Born in Belfast, June 26, 1824. Entered University of Glasgow, 1834. Entered at Peterhouse, Cambridge, October 1841. B.A. and Fellow of Peterhouse, 1845. Professor of Natural Philosophy at Glasgow, 1846. Fellow of the Royal Society, 1851 ; Royal Medallist, 1856 ; Copley Medallist, 1883. Marriage to Miss Margaret Crum (deceased 1870), 1852. Fii-st Atlantic Cables laid, 1857-58. Permanent Atlantic Cables laid, 1865-66. Created a Knight, 1866 ; G.C.V.O., 1896. University of Glasgow removed to Gilmore Hill, 1870. President of the British Association, Edinburgh, 1871. Re-elected Fellow of Peterhouse, 1872. Marriage to Miss Frances Anna Blandy, 1874. » Elected Foreign Associate Member of the Institute of France, 1877. Created Knight of the Prussian Order Fottr le 3fente, 1884. Baltimore Lectures, 1884 ; enlarged edition, 1904. President of the Royal Society of Edinbui’gh, 1886-9 ; 1895-1907. Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour of France, 189 . Created a Peer of Great Britain, as Baron Kelvin of Largs, 1892. Jubilee Celebration, Glasgow, 1896. Retired from Glasgow Professorship, 1899. Order of Merit, original member, 1902. Privy Councillor of Great Britain, 1902. Chancellor of the University of Glasgow, 1904. Deceased December 17, buried in Westminster Abbey, December 23, 1907. LL.D. (Cantab.), D.C.L. (Oxon.), Hon. Mem. Inst. Civ. Engiu. ;—Foreign Member K. Preuss. Akad., Berlin ; K. Gesell. Wiss., Gottingen ; Soc. Ital. di Scienze, Milan ; R. Accad. d. Lincei, Rome ; K. Svenska Vetensk. Akad., Stockholm ; Kais. Akad. Wiss., Vienna ; Foreign Associate of the U. S. National Academy of Sciences, Washington ; etc., etc.