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borough where he made many improved models of his machines most 

 of which were destroyed during the Luddite Riots (1816). This drove 

 him to Tiverton in Devon, where he settled peacefully and where he 

 died. Among his many other inventions was a self-narrowing stocking- 

 frame. 



Heron, Sir Robert (1765-1854), b. Newark. A Whig poHtician, he 

 sat in parliament from 1812-1847. He was a keen student of natural 

 history and he maintained a collection of curious animals known locally 

 as his menagerie. His observations especially on peacocks, were often 

 quoted by Darwin. His notes on natural history were pubhshed posthu- 

 mously together with notes on politics and social economy, d. Stubton 

 Hall, Lines. 



Hind, Henry Y. (1823-1908), b. Nottingham. With his cousin John 

 R. Hind (below) he was educated privately till he was fourteen. After a 

 short period abroad and at Cambridge he went to Canada and in 1853 

 became professor of chemistry and geology at Trinity University, Toronto. 

 He was frequently engaged by the Canadian Government for important 

 surveys including the river system of Labrador, the geology of New 

 Brunswick and the goldfields of Nova Scotia. He was the discoverer of 

 the enormous cod banks off the Labrador coast above the straits of Belle 

 Isle, and he charted the movements of cod and other fishes, d. Windsor, 

 Nova Scotia. 



Hind, John R., F.R.S. (1823-1895), b. Nottingham. At the age of 

 twelve he began to observe the stars, and at sixteen he began to write 

 articles about them in the Nottingham Journal. He entered the Royal 

 Observatory, Greenwich in 1840, and from 1844 till the time of his death 

 was Director of the Observatory founded by George Bishop in Regent's 

 Park and later removed to Twickenham. He superintended the Nautical 

 Almanac from 1853-1891. He was elected F.R.S. in 1863 and was Presi- 

 dent of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1880. His publications on 

 astronomy were numerous, d. Twickenham. 



HoBSON, Ernest Wm., F.R.S. (1856-1933), b. Derby. Educated first 

 at Derby School and then at the Royal College of Science, London, 

 Hobson went into residence at Christ's College, Cambridge in 1874 and in 

 1878 was Senior Wrangler. In 1883 he was made one of the first Uni- 

 versity lecturers in mathematics, and from 1910 till 1931 he was Sadleirian 

 professor. Elected F.R.S. in 1893 he served twice on the Council, and 

 he was also President of the London Mathematical Society. Of his five 

 books, all pubhshed after he was 50, his greatest was Theory of Functions 

 of a Real Variable, which introduced to English readers the modern 

 theories of measure and integration, and has been described as probably 

 the most important book written by a modern mathematician. 



Holder, Rev. Wm., F.R.S. (1616-1698). b. Nottingham. Having taken 

 a degree at Cambridge, he obtained the rectory at Bletchington, Oxford, 

 and was later collated to Ely Cathedral. He made a name for himself 

 by teaching a deaf mute to speak and mainly as a result of this he was 

 elected F.R.S. in 1663. Subsequent to his famous experiment he wrote 



