50 ENGLISH MEN OF SCIENCE. [CHAP. 



Inglis Palgrave, statistician. (The father of the 

 three last was Sir Francis Palgrave, historian.) 



HARCOURT. Scholastic success, with much 

 love for science. 



First generation. The Rev. Vernon Har- 

 court, archbishop of York ; a man of polished 

 intellect and social gifts. 



Second generation. 10 males and 3 females, 

 of whom 4 males deserve notice : (l) The Rev. 

 W. Vernon Harcourt, F.R.S., chemist, the first 

 president and one of the founders of the 

 British Association at a time when science was 

 partly ridiculed and partly denounced. He 

 was the chief framer of its elaborate constitution, 

 which is, I believe, a solitary instance of the in- 

 vention of a complex administrative machinery 

 which worked perfectly from the first, and has 

 continued working, almost unchanged, for nearly 

 half a century. It has served as a model upon 

 which many other societies have organized 

 themselves. (2) Egerton ; and (3) Edward 

 Vernon Harcourt, both double-firsts at Oxford; 

 and (4) Granville Vernon Harcourt, who died 





