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Ralph Abercromby (meteorologist)
Ralph Abercromby (1842–1897) was a Scottish meteorologist. He was born 11 February 1842, the youngest son of the third Lord Abercromby. His mother, Louisa Penuel Forbes, was a daughter of Lord Medwyn.〔(thepeerage.com )〕
His obituary in ''Nature'' summarises his ancestry, "Several of his immediate relatives had been eminently distinguished. His great-grandfather, Sir Ralph Abercromby, who died in 1801, in the moment of victory, at the Battle of Alexandria, had served his country with brilliant distinction, in the West Indies (Trinidad) and at the Helder."〔''Nature'' 57, (55-55 ) (18 November 1897) | 〕 He himself served in the British army from 1860 to 1869 and was stationed in Quebec.
Ralph Abercromby is noted for his contributions to meteorology, his travels producing reports in ''Seas and skies in many latitudes'' such as weather and telegraphy at the US signals office. He wrote on the nomenclature of cloud formation, and figured prominently in the history of the classification system developed by Luke Howard;〔(telegraphic codes and message practice, 1870-1945: telegraphy in meteorology ) ''citing'' Richard Hamblyn's ''The Invention of Clouds : How an amateur meteorologist forged the language of the skies'' (New York 2001)〕 along with Hugo Hildebrand Hildebrandsson (1838-1920) he developed the system laid out by Howard.
He attained the rank of Lieutenant in the 60th Rifles. Abercromby died on 21 June 1897〔 in Sydney, Australia.
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