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Authorised form of nameCrompton; Rookes Evelyn Bell (1845 - 1940); engineer
Dates1845 - 1940
Date of birth31 May 1845
Date of death15/02/1940
OccupationEngineer
ActivityCareer:
Colonel
Honours:
CB 1900
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election11/05/1933
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1939-1941 vol 3 pp 395-403, plate, by Alexander Russell
References:
Vanity Fair 30 August 1911
CodeNA5907
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1933/03Crompton, Rookes Evelyn Bell: certificate of election to the Royal Society
NLB/19/133Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Rooks Evelyn Bell Crompton, [Fellow of the Royal Society]27 June 1899
NLB/35/168Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir William Crookes26 April 1907
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