Charles James Beverley

	Charles James Beverley Charles James Beverley FRS (1788 – 16 September 1868) was a British naval surgeon and naturalist. He was born in Fort Augustus, Scotland, the son of a soldier whose regiment was quartered there at the time. He was apprenticed to a surgeon and entered the navy as an assistant surgeon in 1810. He was employed in that capacity for four years, mainly in the Mediterranean, and was present at the action at Porto d'Anzo in 1813. Failing health resulted in him being sent home in care of the sick and wounded. After recovering he was appointed to , and served in that ship until 1818, when he was selected by the admiralty to be assistant surgeon in HMS ''Isabella'', which was about to proceed under the command of Sir John Ross in an unsuccessful mission to the Polar regions to seek a Northwest Passage. In 1819-20 he served under Sir Edward Parry in a more successful repeat expedition as assistant surgeon on , passing the winter at Winter Harbour on Melville Island. On his return fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Fellow Of The Royal Society Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted by the judges of the Royal Society of London to individuals who have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathematics, engineering science, and medical science". Fellowship of the Society, the oldest known scientific academy in continuous existence, is a significant honour. It has been awarded to many eminent scientists throughout history, including Isaac Newton (1672), Michael Faraday (1824), Charles Darwin (1839), Ernest Rutherford (1903), Srinivasa Ramanujan (1918), Albert Einstein (1921), Paul Dirac (1930), Winston Churchill (1941), Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1944), Dorothy Hodgkin (1947), Alan Turing (1951), Lise Meitner (1955) and Francis Crick (1959). More recently, fellowship has been awarded to Stephen Hawking (1974), David Attenborough (1983), Tim Hunt (1991), Elizabeth Blackburn (1992), Tim Berners-Lee (2001), Venki Ramakrishnan ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Fort Augustus Fort Augustus is a settlement in the parish of Boleskine and Abertarff, at the south-west end of Loch Ness, Scottish Highlands. The village has a population of around 646 (2001). Its economy is heavily reliant on tourism. History The Gaelic name for the modern village is ' () and until the early 18th century the settlement was called Kiliwhimin. It was renamed ''Fort Augustus'' after the Jacobite Rising of 1715. The accepted etymology is that the settlement was originally named after Saint Cummein of Iona who built a church there. Other suggestions are that it was originally called ' after one of two abbots of Iona of the Comyn clan, whose badge ' refers to the cumin plant, or that it was called ' ("Comyn's Burialplace") after the last Comyn in Lochaber. In the aftermath of the Jacobite rising in 1715, General Wade built a fort (taking from 1729 until 1742) which was named after the Duke of Cumberland. Wade had planned to build a town around the new barracks and cal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]