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Robert Stewart Whipple

Father: George Mathews Whipple (15 Sep 1842 - 8 Feb 1893)
Mother: Elizabeth Martha Beckley (1845 - ____)

Family 1: Helen Muir (____ - ____)
  1.  George Whipple (1908 - ____)

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                             _George Whipple ________|
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 _George Mathews Whipple ___|
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|--Robert Stewart Whipple 
|  (1871 - 1953)
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Notes

!SOURCE: Family History Resource File: Vital Records Index, Britigh Isles, Births and Christenings R-Z, Disc 5. (Salt Lake City: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1998). Gives name Robert Stewart Whipple.

!SOURCE: 1881 British Census, Greater London Region. Dwelling: Jocelyn Rd Oak Villa; Census Place: Richmond, Surrey, England; Source: FHL Film 1341200, PRO Ref RG11, Piece 0844, Folio 69, Page 33. Gives name Robert L. Whipple.

!SOURCE: "Descendants of George Whipple of England," email from B. Huckins to Weldon Whipple, 31 Jan 2008. Gives name Robert Stewart Whipple, adding death year.

ROBERT STEWART WHIPPLE: author, inventor, conservator, researcher of pyrometrics for industrial applications (thermometers)

He came to Cambridge in 1898 as a personal assistant to Horace Darwin (youngest son of Charles Darwin) and was the founder of the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company, acting as its Managing Director and Chairman. He He funded the establishment of the Whipple Museum , for whom it was later named, at the Department of History and Philosophy at Cambridge University. He was a collector of scientic, medical and other instruments, books and objects, among which was the deathmask of Sir Isaac Newton. Robert Whipple donated his collections to the Whipple Museum in 1944.

(The Whipple Museum holds scientic instruments and artifacts dating back to medieval times. The Museum also holds some of the collections of Sir Charles Darwin. Robert Whipple's son George also contributed financially to the museum. )

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