58 Heredity. 



His daughter Ada, Lady Lovelace, was distinguished for her 



mathematical abilities. 



His grandfather, Admiral Byron, author of Travels. 

 His/at/ier, Captain Byron, a man of dissolute habits. 

 CHAUCER, the father of English poetry. 



His son, Sir Thomas, speaker of the House of Commons, 



ambassador to the Court of France. 

 CHNIER, Andre", the most illustrious of his family ; 

 His brother, Marie-Joseph. 

 Both took after their mother, Santi Lomaka, a Greek by descent, 



and a woman of distinguished talent. 

 COLERIDGE poet and metaphysician. The following abridged 



list of his descendants is taken from Galton : 

 His son Hartley, poet, a precocious child, whose early life was 

 characterized by visions. His imagination was singularly 

 vivid, and of a morbid character. 

 His son, the Rev. Derwent, author, late Principal of the Chelsea 



Training College, the only survivor of the poet's children. 

 His daughter Sara possessed all her father's individual character- 

 istics, and was also an author. Married her cousin, and 

 of this union was born Herbert Coleridge, a philologist 

 CORNEILLE, Pierre, with whom may be placed 

 His brother Thomas ; 

 His nephew Fontenelle, his sister's son. From this sister 



descended, in direct line, the celebrated Charlotte Corday. 

 /ESCHYLUS numbered among his family 

 His brother Kynegiros, one of the heroes of Marathon ; 

 His brother Aminyas, who commenced the battle of Salamis. 

 His son Euphorion, and his nephew Philocles, seem to have 

 possessed some talent as tragic poets. Philocles was victor 

 in the contest at which Sophocles brought out his (Edipus 

 Tyrannus. 



GOETHE inherited his father's physical constitution, but his 

 mother's character. As poet and physiological student, he 

 thus notes these hereditary influences : 

 Vom Vater hab' ich die Statur, 

 Des Lebens emstes Fuhren ; 

 Von Mlitterchen die Frohnnatur, 

 Und Lust zu fabuliren. 



