authority but Elizabeth Finn Care continues to run a number of care homes
for the elderly. I am grateful to Petra Gomersall and Geoffrey Roper, Legacy
Officer and Compliance Project Analyst respectively at Elizabeth Finn Care,
for taking the time to find the records of the Le Rossignol gift for me. (by
letter and email March 2015). www.elizabethfinncare.org.uk. (Turn2us).
34. Presumably named after the trial of William Penn and William Mead in
1610 for preaching to an unlawful assembly. See Green, op. cit. (note 5).
35. From an article in the Bucks Free Press, 20 October 1967; Security for Old
Folk from £40,000 Gift. Penn Mead Housing Scheme is Launched.
36. I am grateful to the Staff at the Chilterns Crematorium, Amersham, for
providing this information from their records by email (07 March 2012).
Emily’s ashes were scattered in dispersal area 2.
37. Wills are of course public documents. All the Wills were obtained from, UK
Documents, 29 Bunning Way, Islington, London, N7 9UP. (http://
ukdocuments.com).
38. Published in The Times, ‘Latest Wills’, Tuesday 30 December 1975.
39. For the life of Dame Sybil Thorndike, apparently, a ‘cousin of a cousin’ of
his. The televised procession however was ‘inconveniently displaced’ from the
national News by the Israeli raid on Entebbe … he added.
40. Much of what appears in the next few paragraphs is from Mark Peplow, ‘A
fixation with nitrogen’, Chemistry World, 10, 5, 48–51, (May 2013).
41. By ‘steam reforming’ methane to make carbon monoxide and hydrogen.
42. Besides his 1928 paper (Chap. 8) and his conversations with Jaenicke and
Chirnside, on only two other occasions has this author been able to find some
evidence where Robert has freely and independently promoted his involvement with the discovery of fixation, and even then unconvincingly, viz, his
donation of the tubes of ammonia to the Science Museum and one other
occasion recalled in the final chapter.
43. Probably one of the most notorious is the popular re-naming of the ‘Calvin
Cycle’ as the Calvin-Benson-Bassham Cycle. Melvin Calvin, Nobel
Prizewinner in 1961, deliberately, consistently and controversially ignored
the contribution of his colleagues Andrew Benson and James Bassham in its
discovery. The cycle traces the path of carbon assimilation in plants from
atmospheric CO 2 via photosynthesis to plant products (sugars).
18 Penn, Buckinghamshire 1949–1976
499
for the elderly. I am grateful to Petra Gomersall and Geoffrey Roper, Legacy
Officer and Compliance Project Analyst respectively at Elizabeth Finn Care,
for taking the time to find the records of the Le Rossignol gift for me. (by
letter and email March 2015). www.elizabethfinncare.org.uk. (Turn2us).
34. Presumably named after the trial of William Penn and William Mead in
1610 for preaching to an unlawful assembly. See Green, op. cit. (note 5).
35. From an article in the Bucks Free Press, 20 October 1967; Security for Old
Folk from £40,000 Gift. Penn Mead Housing Scheme is Launched.
36. I am grateful to the Staff at the Chilterns Crematorium, Amersham, for
providing this information from their records by email (07 March 2012).
Emily’s ashes were scattered in dispersal area 2.
37. Wills are of course public documents. All the Wills were obtained from, UK
Documents, 29 Bunning Way, Islington, London, N7 9UP. (http://
ukdocuments.com).
38. Published in The Times, ‘Latest Wills’, Tuesday 30 December 1975.
39. For the life of Dame Sybil Thorndike, apparently, a ‘cousin of a cousin’ of
his. The televised procession however was ‘inconveniently displaced’ from the
national News by the Israeli raid on Entebbe … he added.
40. Much of what appears in the next few paragraphs is from Mark Peplow, ‘A
fixation with nitrogen’, Chemistry World, 10, 5, 48–51, (May 2013).
41. By ‘steam reforming’ methane to make carbon monoxide and hydrogen.
42. Besides his 1928 paper (Chap. 8) and his conversations with Jaenicke and
Chirnside, on only two other occasions has this author been able to find some
evidence where Robert has freely and independently promoted his involvement with the discovery of fixation, and even then unconvincingly, viz, his
donation of the tubes of ammonia to the Science Museum and one other
occasion recalled in the final chapter.
43. Probably one of the most notorious is the popular re-naming of the ‘Calvin
Cycle’ as the Calvin-Benson-Bassham Cycle. Melvin Calvin, Nobel
Prizewinner in 1961, deliberately, consistently and controversially ignored
the contribution of his colleagues Andrew Benson and James Bassham in its
discovery. The cycle traces the path of carbon assimilation in plants from
atmospheric CO 2 via photosynthesis to plant products (sugars).
18 Penn, Buckinghamshire 1949–1976
499