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JAMES ALFKED EWING, like many Scots who have become distinguished in the fields of literature and science, was a son of the manse. He was born on March 27, 1855, in Dundee, where his father was a minister of what was then called the ‘Free Church of Scotland’, his father having ‘come out’ in the Disruption of 1843. In the autobiographical section of “An Engineer's Outlook”, Sir Alfred described his father as a man who, with a superb physique, never missed a day's duty through illness, or shirked one for any reason; the same words might be applied to Sir Alfred himself. He seems to have owed much of his early education to his mother. As he so happily phrased it, “She gave us much of what other boys got at school, and did it in a way that made us associate a love of learning with our love of her”.
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BEARE, T. Sir Alfred Ewing, K.C.B., F.R.S. Nature 135, 137–139 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135137a0
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