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4 unusual facts about Arthur Cowper Ranyard


Arthur Cowper Ranyard

Born at Swanscombe, Kent, he was son of Benjamin Ranyard by his wife Ellen Henrietta Ranyard (née White).

He took an interest in public affairs, and in 1892 was elected a member of the London County Council, where he did important work, especially in connection with the new (London) Building Act, which passed into law in the summer of 1894.

He was assistant secretary of the expedition for observing the total solar eclipse of 1870, and made a successful series of polariscopic observations at Villasmunda in Sicily.

Catherine Barton

Augustus De Morgan, Sophia Elizabeth De Morgan, Arthur Cowper Ranyard.



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