BRAINS AND GRIT
SCIENTIST SON OF BUTLER
The death occurred "recently of a scientist who -was an outstanding proof of the saying that "you can't keep a good man down," states ,a London paper. Sir Gilbert Morgan. F.R.S., was one of the greatest research chemists Britain has produced; his name was a household word among scientists. Yet the boy Gilbert had no advantages to start him on the road to fame —except brains and grit. His father was a butler, his mother a Swiss lady's maid, and his education started in a little Hertfordshire village school. He might have become » farm labourer, a baker's roundsman, or a small tradesman —but he- mounted the ladder of education and reached Dublin University. „ Sir Gilbert never forgot liis native village. He paid frequent visits to his blind father. In tho early days of insulin treatment he provided for some years tho expensive injections for a village girl, whose life was thus saved.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23773, 28 September 1940, Page 2 (Supplement)
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