CROSSE

Andrew ( elder son of Richard Cro e of Fyne court, Broom field, Somerset ). b. Fyne court 17 June 1784; ed. at Rev. Mr. Seyer’s school, The Fort, Bristol 1793–1802, caned on an average 3 times a day for 7 years; gentleman commoner at Brasenose coll. Ox. 1802, B.A. 1806; experimented on electro-crystallisation; observed appearance of insect life in metallic solutions supposed to be destructive to organic life 1837, the publication of this discovery gained him great notoriety. d. in the room in which he was born at Fyne Court 6 July 1855. Memorials scientific and literary of Andrew Cro e the electrician by C. A. H. Cro e 1857; H. M. Noad’s Manual of Electricity , 4 ed. (1855) 173–77, 256, 378–83, 390, 401; Letters of H. G. At kins on to Harriet Martin eau (1851) 361–67.