Sir Andrew Noble, 1st Baronet
Sir Andrew Noble, 1st Baronet KCB FRS (13 September 1831 – 22 October 1915) wis a Scots physicist kent fur his wirk on ballistics an gunnery.[1]
Sir Andrew Noble, Bt | |
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 Sir Andrew Noble c. 1907 | |
| Born | 13 September 1831 Greenock |
| Dee'd | 22 October 1915 (aged 84) |
| Naitionality | Scots |
| Kent for | ballistics |
| Hauf-marrae(s) | Margery Durham Campbell (m.1854) |
| Bairns | 2 dauchters, 4 sons |
| Awairds | Ryal Medal (1880) Albert Medal (1909) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
Early life
eeditBorn at Greenock, he was edicatit at Edinburgh Academy an at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. He wis commissioned in the Royal Artillery in 1849, promuived tae caiptain in 1855 an became secretar o the Ryal Artillery Institution. He wis secretar o the British government seleck committee on replacin the smuith-bore cannon wi rifle artillery an carriet oot resairch on the subject. In 1859 he became Assistant-Inspector o Artillery an in 1860 jynt the Ordnance Select Committee an the Committee on Explosives, steyin on the committee til it wis disbandit in 1880.[1]
Personal life
eeditIn 1854, whiles wi his regiment in Quebec, Noble marriet Margery Durham Campbell. They haed fower sons an twa dauchters.[1] Margery lived til the age o 101.
Noble's furst an secont sons George an Saxton becam successiv second and third baronets, while his third son John Noble, involved wi Armstrongs Artillery, wis creatit a baronet in his ain richt in 1923. The latter's yungest son Michael Noble becam a weel-kent Conservative politician an wis creatit a life peer as Baron Glenkinglas in 1974.
Noble's yungest dauchter Ethel mairret Alfred Cochrane, a cricketer an poet that wis Company Secretar at Armstrongs.