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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).

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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.

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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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