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| WHETHAM (post DAMPIER), WILLIAM CECIL DAMPIER. Adm. pens. at TRINITY, June 14, 1886. [Only] s. of Charles Langley, of 40, Albion Road, South Hampstead (and Mary Ann, youngest dau. of Thomas Dampier, of Kingston Manor, Yeovil, Somerset ). B. Dec. 27, 1867, in London . School, 23, York Place, Portman Square, London (private). Matric. Michs. 1886; (Nat. Sci. Trip., Pt I, 1st Class, 1888; Pt II, 1st Class, 1889); Scholar, 1889; Coutts Trotter Student, 1889; B.A. 1889; Clerk Maxwell Scholar, 1893. M.A. 1893; Sc.D. 1931. Fellow, 1891-1952; Tutor, 1907-13; Senior Tutor, 1913-17. Assistant Demonstrator in Experimental Physics, 1892-4. F.R.S., 1901. Knighted, 1931. Took the name of Dampier only on succeeding to the Dampier estates. Fellow of Winchester College, 1917-47. Member of the Central Agricultural Wages Board, 1925-42. Secretary of the Agricultural Research Council, 1931-5; Member, 1935-46. A Development Commissioner, 1933-51. Chairman of Home Office Committee on Factory Lighting. Vice-President, Royal Agricultural Society, 1948. Married, Dec. 10, 1897, Catherine Durning, eldest dau. of Robert Durning Holt, of Liverpool, and had issue. Author, A History of Science; The Theory of Experimental Electricity; Matter and Change; Back to the Land; An Introduction to Eugenics; The Family and the Nation; Life of Colonel Nathaniel Whetham, etc. Of Hilfield Manor, Dorset and Upwater Lodge, Chaucer Road, Cambridge. Died December 11, 1952. ( Who's Who .) | William Cecil Dampier WHETHAM post William Cecil Dampier DAMPIER Approx. lifespan: 1867–1952 pens. Trinity College adm1886:06:14 Only s. of Charles Langley WHETHAM of 40 Albion Road, South Hampstead, [ London ] (and Mary Ann DAMPIER youngest dau. of Thomas DAMPIER post Charles Langley DAMPIER of 40 Albion Road, South Hampstead, [ London ] (and Mary Ann DAMPIER youngest dau. of Thomas DAMPIER of Kingston Manor, Kingston, Yeovil, Somerset ) b. 1867:12:27 in London School, 23 York Place, York, Portman Square, London (private) Matric 1886:10MT: Nat.Sci.Trip. Pt I, 1st Class 1888 Pt II, 1st Class(1889); Scholar 1889 Coutts Trotter Student: 1889 BA 1889 Clerk: Maxwell Scholar 1893 MA 1893 ScD 1931 Fellow 1891-1952 Tutor: 1907-13 Senior Tutor: 1913-17 Assistant Demonstrator in: : Experimental Physics 1892-94 FRS 1901 Knighted 1931 Took the name of Dampier only on succeeding to the Dampier estates. Fellow of: : Sch: Winchester College Winchester, [ Hampshire ] 1917-47 Member of: the Central Agricultural Wages Board 1925-42 Sec. of: : Agricultural Research Council 1931-35 Member: 1935-46 A Development Commissioner: 1933-51 Chairman of Home: Office Committee on Factory Lighting. Vice-President, Royal Agricultural Society 1948 m. 1897:12:10 Catherine Durning HOLT eldest dau. of Robert Durning HOLT of Liverpool, [ Lancashire ] had issue Publ.: A History of Science; The Theory of Experimental Electricity; Matter and Change; Back to the Land; An Introduction to Eugenics; The Family and the Nation; Life of Colonel: Nathaniel Whetham etc. Of Hilfield Manor, Hilfield, Dorset and Upwater Lodge, Chaucer, Road CB, [ Cambridgeshire ] d. 1952:12:11 ( Who's Who .) |