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IN the thirty-fourth James Forrest Lecture, delivered by him before the Institution of Civil Engineers on June 4, Sir Alfred Ewing omits to mention the source from which he has borrowed his title. The historian of science is not likely to forget that remarkable memoir, “A Century of Inventions” (1663), in which the steam-engine is first described. It has been often reprinted, and under this name, an abbreviation of the original has been translated into several European languages. The author, Edward Somerset, second Marquess of Worcester (1601–1667), was eldest son of Henry, the first marquess, by Anne, second daughter of John Lord Russell and of Elizabeth, third daughter of Sir Anthony Cooke, Knight of the Bath. By virtue of their common descent from the last-named statesman, he was a cousin once removed of Francis Bacon, Viscount St. Alban. His only son, Henry Somerset, first Duke of Beaufort, was a maternal ancestor of Augustus Fitzroy, third Duke of Grafton, grandfather of Admiral Fitzroy, the eminent meteorologist.
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COOKE, T. [Letters to Editor]. Nature 122, 56 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122056b0
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