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Edward Fenton (d. 1603) who was born at Sturton-le-Steeple, Notts., 

 and who later (1582) commanded a small fleet sent out on a similar quest. 



Gilbert, Sir Joseph H., D.Sc, F.R.S. (1817-1901), b. Hull. He was 

 the son of the minister of Friar Lane Chapel, Nottingham, where 

 he spent his boyhood. Trained at Glasgow as an analytical chemist, 

 he worked for a time at University College, London. He was associated 

 for 57 years (1843-1900) with Sir John Lawes in agricultural experiments 

 at Rothamsted which Lawes had established as the first agricultural 

 experimental station in the world. He was elected F.R.S. in 1860, and 

 was Professor of Rural Economy at Oxford for 6 years (1884-1890). 

 d. Harpenden. 



Greatorex. Thomas, F.R.S. (1758-1831), b. near Chesterfield, Derby. 

 He was organist and choirmaster of Carlisle Cathedral (1780-84) and 

 later of Westminster Abbey (1819-31). He spent most of his time study- 

 ing science and was elected F.R.S. for discovering a new way of measur- 

 ing the altitude of mountains, d. Hampton. 



Green, George (1793-1841), b. Sneinton, now a part of Nottingham. 

 The windmill in which probably he and certainly his father worked still 

 stands and, thanks to the beneficence of Mr. O. W. Hind, has been pre- 

 served as a memorial to Green. He graduated B.A. at Cambridge in 

 1837 and was elected to a fellowship in 1839. He has been described as 

 ' a mathematician who stood head and shoulders above all his com- 

 panions in and outside the University '. 



Hall, Marshall, M.D., F.R.S. (1790-1857), b. Basford Hall, Notts. 

 Educated at Edinburgh and abroad, he practised as a doctor in Notting- 

 ham for 8 years and then in London where he specialised in nervous dis- 

 eases. One of his most important discoveries was that of reflex action. 

 Though his theories in physiology met with opposition from the Royal 

 Society, he was admitted as a Fellow in 1832. He published numerous 

 scientific and medical works and devised a method of artificial respiration, 

 d. Brighton, buried Nottingham. 



Hargreaves, James (1718-1788), b. Blackburn. In 1764 he invented 

 the spinning jenny and four years later settled in Nottingham where he 

 established a cotton mill, possible the first of its kind, in Wollaton Street. 

 Like Arkwright (q.v.) he suffered attacks from hand spinners who burnt 

 his house, destroyed his machines and forced him to leave the district. 



Hawkesley, Thomas (1807-1893), b. Arnold, near Nottingham. Edu- 

 cated at Nottingham Grammar School and self-taught in mathematics, 

 chemistry and geology, he was articled as an architect and became an 

 engineer concerned mainly with water, gas and drainage. He settled in 

 London in 1852 and remained water engineer for Nottingham where he 

 instituted the first constant supply. 



Heathcoat, John (1783-1861), b. Duffield. near Derby. Apprenticed 

 to a hosiery maker at Long Whatton, Leicestershire, he later acquired a 

 machinery business at Nottingham. In 1803 he removed to Hathern 

 where he invented a lace machine which had the reputation of being the 

 most complicated machine ever produced. He later moved to Lough- 



