Charles Roy Nasmith FRSE (1882-1954) was an American diplomat who served as the US Consul in Belgium and Scotland.
Charles Roy Nasmith FRSE (1882-1954) was an American diplomat who served as the US Consul in Belgium and Scotland.
He was born in Mannsville, New York on 18 July 1882 to Jared Spalding Nasmith and his wife Flora Sarah Wake.[ citation needed ]
Mannsville is a village in the town of Ellisburg in Jefferson County, New York, United States. The population was 354 at the 2010 census, down from 400 at the 2000 census. The name is from Barzillian Mann, early developer.
He studied at Colgate University graduating BA in 1904 then joining the Diplomatic Service in 1907 before gaining a further MA in 1916.
Colgate University is a private liberal arts college in Hamilton, New York. Founded in 1819, Colgate enrolls nearly 3,000 students in 56 undergraduate majors that culminate in a Bachelor of Arts degree; it also enrolls a dozen students in a Master of Arts in Teaching program.
Serving with the US Consul he served in Limoges 1907 to 1911, Brussels from 1911 to 1917 (through critical war years), moving to Rotterdam [ citation needed ] when America entered the war he returned to Belgium in 1919, serving in Ghent until 1922. After another return to the US he went to Britain in 1926 to Newcastle-upon-Tyne then to Porto Alegre in Brazil until 1929. After another return to US he went to Marseille in the south of France in 1932 before going to Edinburgh where he then settled.[ citation needed ]
Limoges is a city and commune, the capital of the Haute-Vienne department and was the administrative capital of the former Limousin region in west-central France.
Brussels, officially the Brussels-Capital Region, is a region of Belgium comprising 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels, which is the capital of Belgium. The Brussels-Capital Region is located in the central portion of the country and is a part of both the French Community of Belgium and the Flemish Community, but is separate from the Flemish Region and the Walloon Region. Brussels is the most densely populated and the richest region in Belgium in terms of GDP per capita. It covers 161 km2 (62 sq mi), a relatively small area compared to the two other regions, and has a population of 1.2 million. The metropolitan area of Brussels counts over 2.1 million people, which makes it the largest in Belgium. It is also part of a large conurbation extending towards Ghent, Antwerp, Leuven and Walloon Brabant, home to over 5 million people.
Rotterdam is the second-largest city and a municipality of the Netherlands. It is located in the province of South Holland, at the mouth of the Nieuwe Maas channel leading into the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta at the North Sea. Its history goes back to 1270, when a dam was constructed in the Rotte, after which people settled around it for safety. In 1340, Rotterdam was granted city rights by the Count of Holland.
In 1937 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were James Pickering Kendall, Thomas James Jehu, George Freeland Barbour Simpson and Ernest Wedderburn. [1]
The Royal Society of Edinburgh is Scotland's national academy of science and letters. It is a registered charity, operating on a wholly independent and non-party-political basis and providing public benefit throughout Scotland. It was established in 1783. As of 2017, it has more than 1,660 Fellows.
Dr George Freeland Barbour Simpson FRSE FRCPE FRCSE JP (1874–1958) was a 20th century British physician and gynaecologist. In 1913 he served as President of the Obstetrical Society of Edinburgh.
Sir Ernest Maclagan WedderburnOBE FRSE WS was a Scottish lawyer, and a significant figure both in the civic life of Edinburgh and in the legal establishment. He held the posts of Professor of Conveyancing in the University of Edinburgh (1922–35), Deputy Keeper of the Signet (1935–54), and Chairman of the General Council of Solicitors (1936–49), the forerunner to the Law Society of Scotland. He was also an enthusiastic amateur scientist, and Treasurer of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1937–47).
He retired in 1946 and died in Edinburgh on 5 December 1954 and is buried in Liberton Cemetery in the south of the city.[ citation needed ]
In June 1915 he married Evelyn Mary (Liline) Kirkpatrick (1893-1975) whom he had met working in Brussels. They married around 1920. She moved to Peeblesshire after his death. They had one daughter Annette Evelyn Nasmith (1923-2004) born in Ghent.[ citation needed ]
Prof David Mather Masson LLD DLitt, was a Scottish academic, literary critic and historian.
Victor Pierre Horta was a Belgian architect and designer. John Julius Norwich described him as "undoubtedly the key European Art Nouveau architect." Horta is considered one of the most important names in Art Nouveau architecture. With the construction of his Hôtel Tassel in Brussels in 1892-3, he is sometimes credited as the first to introduce the style to architecture from the decorative arts. The "biomorphic whiplash" style that Horta promoted deeply influenced architect Hector Guimard who used it in projects in France and extended its influence abroad.
Sir James Alfred Ewing KCB FRS FRSE MInstitCE was a Scottish physicist and engineer, best known for his work on the magnetic properties of metals and, in particular, for his discovery of, and coinage of the word, hysteresis.
Sir Norman Boyd Kinnear was a Scottish zoologist and ornithologist.
James Murdoch Geikie PRSE FRS LLD was a Scottish geologist. He was professor of geology at Edinburgh University from 1882 to 1914.
Frits Van den Berghe was a Belgian expressionist and surrealist painter and illustrator.
Maurice Auguste Count Lippens was a noble Belgian businessman, politician, and colonial civil servant and lawyer.
Prof Edward Percy Stebbing FRSE FRGS FZS was a pioneering British forester and forest entomologist in India. He was among the first to warn of desertification and desiccation and wrote on "The encroaching Sahara".
Dr James Murray FRSE was a biologist and explorer.
Andrew Grant was a Scottish merchant and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1878 to 1885.
Constant Montald was a Belgian painter, muralist, sculptor, and teacher.
James Ritchie CBE PRSE was a Scottish naturalist and archaeologist, who was Professor of Natural History at the University of Edinburgh 1936–52 and President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1952-1958.
Sir Walter Noel Hartley FRS FRSE DSc was a British chemist. He was a pioneer of spectroscopy, and the first person to establish a relationship between the wavelengths of spectral lines of the elements and their positions in the periodic table, and he studied also the relationship between the structure and spectra of a wide variety of organic compounds. In 1881, he hypothesized the presence of ozone in the atmosphere.
Carl Hamilton Browning LLD FRS FRSE (1881–1973) was a Scottish bacteriologist and immunologist. He is especially remembered for his brief but important work in Germany with Paul Ehrlich. He discovered the therapeutic qualities of acridine dyes.
Dr Harold Roy Fletcher FRSE (1907-1978) was an English botanist and horticulturalist. He was Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh from 1956 to 1970 and Her Majesty's Botanist 1966 to 1978. As an author he is known as H. R. Fletcher.
James Methuen Graham FRSE PRCSE LLD (1882–1962) was a Scottish surgeon. He was President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh for the period 1945 to 1947. He was also Senior President of the Royal Medical Society. He made considerable advances in the fields of blood transfusion and on the thyroid gland.
Dr John Hennen FRSE was an Irish-born military surgeon and author of the acclaimed medical textbook The Principles of Military Surgery.
Prof Peter Macnair FRSE FGS (1868–1929) was a Scottish naturalist and geologist. He was Curator of the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. He was President of the Geological Society of Glasgow.
Dr Francis Esmond Reynolds FRSE (1882–1967) was a 20th century British pathologist and medical author.
Prof George Ian Scott FRSE PRCSE (1907–1989) was a 20th century Scottish physician and ophthalmic surgeon. He was President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh from 1964 to 1967, the first ophthalmologist in this role. He was President of the Ophthalmic Society of the UK 1970 to 1972.
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