Sir George Gabriel Stokes (1819-1903)
Irish-born British Mathematician
and Physicist.
Bore the arms granted in 1721 to his great-grandfather, Gabriel Stokes (1682-1768), namely:
Gules, a demi-lion rampant double-queued Argent,
within a bordure Sable entoyre of bezants.
[The escutcheon charged with
a Baronet badge of Ulster, after 1889.]
Crest : On a wreath of the colors, a forestaff
(cross-staff) in pale Proper.
Motto : Ire in Adversa
(walking through adversity).
Mantling : Gules and Argent.
Livery : (Dress) white coat, crimson plush breeches, (undress) blue
drab overcoat.
George
Stokes (1819-1903) |
Entry from the 1902
edition of Fox-Davies "Armorial Families"
(courtesy of Stephen Plowman)
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Quick
Biography
of Sir George G. Stokes :
- Born on August 13, 1819, in Skreen, County Sligo (Ireland).
- In 1832, leaves home to attend school in Dublin.
- Father dies in 1834.
- In 1835 (at age 16) enters Bristol College (England).
- In 1837, enters Pembroke College, Cambridge.
- He is coached by
William
Hopkins (1793-1866).
- In 1841, Senior Wrangler in Cambridges's Mathematical Tripos.
- 1845: On the theories of the internal friction of fluids in motion.
- Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge (1849-1903).
- Elected Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1851.
- Rumford Medal in 1852.
- Secretary of the Royal Society (1854-1885).
- Marries Mary Susanna Robinson in 1857.
- President of the Victoria Institute (1886-1903).
- President of the Royal Society (1885-1890).
- Member of Parliament for Cambridge University (1887-1892).
- Created a baronet in 1889 (baronetcy extinct in 1916).
- Copley Medal of the Royal Society, in 1893.
- Professorial Jubilee (50 years as Lucasian professor) in 1899.
- Dies on February 1, 1903, at 1 am, in Lensfield Cottage, Cambridge.
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Genealogy:
Sir George Gabriel Stokes (1819-1903) was born on August 13, 1819,
in Skreen, County Sligo (Ireland) where his father Gabriel was
Rector of the Church of Ireland
("Gabriel" is a popular name in the Stokes lineage).
The grandfather of George Stokes (1819-1903) was John Stokes
(1721-1781)
Regius Professor of Greek at Dublin University,
where his younger brother Gabriel (1732-1806) held the chair of mathematics.
The father of John Stokes (great-grandfather of Sir George Stokes) was
Gabriel Stokes
(1682-1768) who married Elizabeth King of Rathfarnam (1689-1751) in 1711.
He became Deputy Surveyor General of Ireland in 1721.
He was a mathematical instrument maker residing in Essex Street, Dublin
(at the corner of Eustace and Essex).
In 1721, he was granted the arms which his great-grandson would later bear:
Rootsweb
:
Stokes of Dublin, Dublin County, Ireland.
Arms allowed by Hawkins, Ulster, 1721, and crest granted, for skill in his profession;
to Gabriel Stokes, mathematical instrument maker.
Gules, a demi lion rampant double queued Argent.
Crest: A forestaff in pale Proper.
Smith's Ordinary of Arms :
The following entry was made in the handwriting of Hawkins, Ulster;
Stokes-Gabriel. Mathematical Instrument Maker -
Gules, a demi lion double queue Argent, a bordure Sable entoyre of bezants,
and for skill in his profession the following crest allowed him (viz.)
a forestaff in pale Proper. 15 Nov. 1721.
(By Ulster under a special patent).
Fox-Davies Armorial Families (1929) :
STOKES (U.O., 15 Nov. 1721, Ped. H. Coll. and U.O.). Gules,
a demi-lion rampant double queued argent,
a bordure sable entoyre of bezants.
Mantling: Gules and argent.
Crest: On a wreath of the colours, a forestaff in pale proper.
Motto: Ire in Adversa.
Livery: (Dress) white coat, crimson plush breeches,
(undress) blue, drab overcoat.
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