CHILDREN

John George ( only child of George Children of Ferox hall, Tun bridge, Kent 1742–1818 ). b. Ferox hall 18 May 1777; ed. at Eton and Queen’s coll. Cam.; established gunpowder mills at Ramhurst 1813; a librarian in department of antiquities at British Museum 1816, keeper of the Zoological collections 1823 to 25 March 1840; F.R.S. 12 March 1807, one of the secretaries 1826–7 and 1830–7, vice pres. 1837–8; F.R.S. of Edin. 1812; F.S.A. 1816; pres. of Entomological Soc. 1834–5; discovered a method for extracting silver from its ore without the use of mercury 1824; published translations of The nard’s Traité de Chymie 1819, and of Berzelius’s Use of the blowpipe in chemical analysis 1822. d. Halstead place, Kent 1 Jany. 1852. Memoir of J. G. Children, privately printed 1853; Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xii , 137–40 (1853); G.M. xxxvii , 622–4 (1852).