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1814, he was the first Anglican Bishop in India, where he did much to 

 advance education by organising schools. Before leaving England he 

 edited The Country Spectator and British Critic. He was elected F.R.S. 

 in 1814. d. Calcutta. 



MoYSEY Lewis, B.A., M.B., F.G.S. (1869-1918). Educated at Rep ton 

 School and Cambridge. Practised as medical doctor in Nottingham for 

 many years. Was deeply interested in the Palaeontology of the Coal 

 Measures. He devised a method of cracking ironstone nodules which 

 enabled him to make an extensive collection of rare fossils. After soak- 

 ing in water and freezing them he dropped them in boiling water. By 

 his collections and writings he made valuable contributions to Upper 

 Carboniferous palaeontology. At the outbreak of the War he volun- 

 teered for service and as a Captain in the R.A.M.C. he lost his life in 

 the hospital ship ' Glenart Castle ' which was torpedoed in the Bristol 

 Channel on 26th February 1918. 



MuNDELLA, Anthony J. (1825-1897), b. Leicester. He settled in 

 Nottingham, held civic offices, entered Parliament and was President of 

 the Board of Trade in 1886 and from 1892-94. An early supporter of 

 compulsory education he was identified with the Elementary Education 

 Act of 1870 and the so-called Mundella Code of Education (1882). He 

 was also active in factory, mining and other legislation. 



Newton, Sir Isaac, F.R.S. (1642-1727), b. Woolsthorpe, near Gran- 

 tham. Educated at Grantham Grammar School he showed early interest 

 in mechanics and mathematics. Admitted to Trinity College, Cambridge, 

 in 1661, he was elected a Fellow in 1667, and Lucasian Professor 

 in 1672, in. which year he became F.R.S. His law of universal 

 gravitation was completed in 1685 and the first edition of Principia ap- 

 peared in 1687. He was M.P. for Cambridge University 1689-90 and 

 1701-2, Warden of the Royal Mint 1694. Knighted 1705. In 1703 he 

 was elected President of the Royal Society, an office which he held for 

 25 years. The second edition of Principia was published in 1713. His 

 writings also included work on chemistry and theology, among other 

 subjects. He resigned his professorship in 1701. d. Kensington. 



Percy, John, M.D., F.R.S. (1817-1889), b. Nottingham. Educated 

 privately, in Paris, and at Edinburgh University, where he graduated in 

 medicine, he was elected, in 1839, physician to Queen's Hospital, Birming- 

 ham. The metallurgical works in the district aroused his interest and he 

 studied metallurgy intensely. In 1848 he invented a method of extracting 

 silver from ores which led to the van Patera and Russell processes. In 

 1851 he became lecturer in metallurgy in the Metropolitan School of 

 Science (later Royal School of Mines) and taught most of the metallur- 

 gists of his time. In 1864 he published Iron and Steel, the first book of 

 its kind, a classic in which was presented all then known about metal- 

 lurgical processes. He was elected F.R.S. in 1847. d. Bayswater. 



Plumptre, Henry, M.D., F.R.S. (d. 1746), b. Nottingham. A pensioner 

 of Queen's College, Cambridge, of which he was later elected a Fellow, 

 he was admitted a candidate of the Royal College of Physicians in 1708, 



