Lord Rayleigh, O.M., F.R.S

Abstract

JOHN WILLIAM STRUTT, third Baron Rayleigh, was born in Essex on November 12, 1842, and succeeded his father in the title in 1873. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, taking his degree as Senior Wrangler in 1865. His immediate neighbours in the Tripos list were Prof. Alfred Marshall and Mr. H. M. Taylor. The same year he obtained the first Smith's prize, and in 1866 became a fellow of his college. He married Evelyn, daughter of Mr. James Maitland Balfour, of Whittingehame, and sister of Mr. A. J. Balfour, the Foreign Secretary. Of his four sons two survive him—Robert, now professor of physics in the Imperial College of Technology, who succeeds to the title; and Arthur, who for a great part of the war was navigating officer on the flagship of the ist Battle Squadron. They, with their mother, were present at their father's funeral, which took place at Terling on Friday last.