48 Facts About Fleeming Jenkin

Fleeming Jenkin's descendants include the engineer Charles Frewen Jenkin and through him the Conservative MPs Patrick, Lord Jenkin of Roding and Bernard Jenkin.

Fleeming Jenkin took him to the south of Scotland, where, chiefly at Barjarg, she taught him drawing and allowed him to ride his pony on the moors.

Fleeming Jenkin went to school at Jedburgh, Borders, and afterwards to the Edinburgh Academy, where he won many prizes.

At thirteen, Fleeming Jenkin had produced a romance of three hundred lines in heroic couplets, a novel, and innumerable poems, none of which are now extant.

Fleeming Jenkin learned German in Frankfurt and, on the family migrating to Paris the following year, he studied French and mathematics under a M Deluc.

At Genoa, Fleeming Jenkin attended the university, being its first Protestant student.

Fleeming Jenkin attended an art school in the city, and gained a silver medal for a drawing from one of Raphael's cartoons.

Fleeming Jenkin's holidays were spent in sketching, and his evenings in learning to play the piano or, when permissible, at the theatre or opera-house.

Fleeming Jenkin's stay in Manchester, though in striking contrast to his life in Genoa, was agreeable.

Fleeming Jenkin liked his work, had the good spirits of youth, and made some pleasant friends, one of them the author, Elizabeth Gaskell.

Fleeming Jenkin was argumentative, and his mother tells of his having overcome a consul at Genoa in a political discussion when he was only sixteen 'simply from being well-informed on the subject, and honest.

Fleeming Jenkin is as true as steel,' she writes, 'and for no one will he bend right or left.

Fleeming Jenkin complained about the late hours, his rough comrades, and his humble lodgings, 'across a dirty green and through some half-built streets of two-storied houses.

Fleeming Jenkin had been introduced to the Austins by a letter from Mrs Gaskell, and was charmed with the atmosphere of their choice home, where intellectual conversation was happily united with kind and courteous manners, without any pretence or affectation.

Fleeming Jenkin therefore asked the Austins for leave to court their daughter.

Fleeming Jenkin was busy designing and fitting up machinery for cableships, and making electrical experiments.

Fleeming Jenkin then spliced the ship's cable to the shoreward end and resumed paying-out but after seventy miles in all were laid, another rapid rush of cable took place, and Brett was obliged to cut and abandon the line.

Fleeming Jenkin telegraphed to London for more cable to be made and sent out, while the ship remained there holding the end.

Fleeming Jenkin had fitted her out the year before for laying the Cagliari to Malta and Corfu cables but on this occasion she was better equipped.

Fleeming Jenkin had a new machine for picking up the cable, and a sheave or pulley at the bows for it to run over, both designed by Jenkin, together with a variety of wooden buoys, ropes, and chains.

Liddell, assisted by FC Webb and Fleeming Jenkin, was in charge of the expedition.

Fleeming Jenkin had nothing to do with the electrical work, his care being the deck machinery for raising the cable but it was a responsible job.

Fleeming Jenkin reported the expedition in letters to Miss Austin and in diary entries.

Fleeming Jenkin was telegraphed for, arrived next morning, and spent a week in Glasgow, mostly in Thomson's classroom and laboratory at the old college.

Fleeming Jenkin was strongly attached to his wife and his letters reveal a warmth of affection which a casual observer would never have suspected in him.

Fleeming Jenkin took to gardening, without a natural liking for it, and soon became an ardent expert.

Fleeming Jenkin wrote reviews and lectured or amused himself in playing charades and reading poetry.

In 1865, on the birth of their second son, Mrs Fleeming Jenkin was very ill, and Fleeming Jenkin, after running two miles for a doctor, knelt by her bedside during the night in a draught.

Fleeming Jenkin observed that the whole island was electrified by the battery at the telegraph station.

Fleeming Jenkin's treatment extended beyond earlier treatments on the Continent, complete with comparative statics, welfare analysis, application to the labour market, and market-period and long-run distinctions.

In 1878 Fleeming Jenkin made a contribution to public health with his pamphlet Healthy Houses.

Fleeming Jenkin was a clear, fluent speaker, and a successful teacher.

Fleeming Jenkin is described as being of medium height, and very plain, with an unimposing manner.

Fleeming Jenkin's class was always in good order, for he instantly spotted and disciplined anyone who misbehaved.

Fleeming Jenkin investigated the laws of electric signals in submarine cables.

Fleeming Jenkin was associated with Thomson in an ingenious 'curb-key' for sending signals automatically through a long cable; but it was never adopted.

Fleeming Jenkin could draw a portrait with astonishing rapidity, and had been known to stop a passer-by for a few minutes and sketch her on the spot.

Fleeming Jenkin read selectively, preferring the story of David, the Odyssey, the Arcadia, the saga of Burnt Njal, and the Grand Cyrus.

Fleeming Jenkin was a good father, joining in his children's play as well as directing their studies.

Fleeming Jenkin shot, rode and swam well, and taught his boys athletic exercises, boating, salmon fishing, and so on.

Fleeming Jenkin learned to dance a Highland reel, and began the study of Gaelic; but it proved too difficult for Jenkin.

Fleeming Jenkin had showed great devotion to them in their illnesses, and was worn out with grief and watching.

Fleeming Jenkin was planning a holiday to Italy with his wife to recuperate, and had a minor operation on his foot, which resulted in blood poisoning.

At one period of his life Fleeming Jenkin was a freethinker, holding all dogmas as 'mere blind struggles to express the inexpressible.

In June 1867, Fleeming Jenkin reviewed Darwin's On the Origin of Species, in The North British Review.

Fleeming Jenkin criticized Darwin's evolutionary theory by suggesting that Darwin's interpretation of natural selection couldn't possibly work, as described, if the reigning hypothesis of inheritance, blending inheritance, was valid.

Fleeming Jenkin thus concluded that natural selection could not possibly work if blending inheritance were true.

Fleeming Jenkin referred to Lord Kelvin's recent estimation of the age of the earth.