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MCCLEAN, FRANK, only son of John Robinson McClean MP MICE FRS, Great Queen Street, Westminster, Pres. Institution of Civil Engineers, and Anna, dau. of William Newsam; b. 13 Nov 1837; adm. 18 Jan 1850; Glasgow Univ. 1853; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 11 Jun 1855, scholar 1858; 27th Wrangler 1859; BA 1859; MA 1863; apprenticed to Sir John Hawkshaw, civil engineer 1859; partner in father’s firm McClean and Stileman, civil engineers 1862-70; MICE; retired from business and applied himself to the study of astronomy; Gold Medallist, Royal Astronomical Society 1899; founded three Isaac Newton scholarships in Astronomy and Physical Optics at Cambridge Univ. 1890; presented the Victoria telescope to the Royal Observatory at the Cape of Good Hope 1894; collector of illuminated manuscripts, early printed books and coins; hon. LLD Glasgow 1894; FRAS 1877, Council from 1891; FRS 13 Jun 1895; m. 24 May 1865 Ellen, youngest dau. of John Greg, Escowbeck, Lancaster; d. at Brussels 8 Nov 1904. DNB.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.