Английская Википедия:George C. Bompas
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George Cox Bompas (18 April 1827 – 23 May 1905) was a British solicitor and astronomer.
Bompas was born in Bloomsbury. He was the second son of Serjeant Charles Carpenter Bompas.[1] His brother was William Bompas.[2]
Bompas was admitted as a solicitor in 1850 and continued to practice until 1903.[1] He worked for the law firm Bischoff, Coxe and Bompas and was a solicitor for several of their companies. He later was employed as a lawyer in the George Earl Church debt contract with Bolivia.[3]
He married May Anne Scott Buckland, daughter of Rev. William Buckland, in 1860. They had four children.[1] Bompas took interest in astronomy and studied periodic meteor showers and the Zodiacal light. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society on 14 December 1894.[4] He was a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, the Geological Society and the Paleontological Society.[1]
In 1896, Bompas authored a paper for the Victoria Institute of which he was a member titled "On evolution and design" which argued for a form of theistic evolution.[5] This was controversial because such a position usually invited disapproval from the Victoria Institute's membership who favoured creationism. However, Bompas was a solicitor from a well-regarded Baptist family so his paper received an unusually mild reaction.[5]
Selected publications
- Life of Frank Buckland: By his Brother-in-Law (1888)
- The Problem of the Shakespeare Plays (1902)
References
- ↑ 1,0 1,1 1,2 1,3 Шаблон:Cite journal
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- ↑ Flandreau, Marc. (2016). Anthropologists in the Stock Exchange: A Financial History of Victorian Science. University of Chicago Press. p. 174. Шаблон:ISBN
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- ↑ 5,0 5,1 Mathieson, Stuart. (2020). Evangelicals and the Philosophy of Science: The Victoria Institute, 1865-1939. Routledge. p. 68. Шаблон:ISBN
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