Stokes, Sir George Gabriel, mathematician and physicist, born in Skreen, co. Sligo; he is great in the department of mathematical physics, and has been specially devoted to the study of hydro-dynamics and the theory of light; has opened new fields of investigation, and supplied future experimenters with valuable hints; he was one of the foremost physicists of the day; (b. 1819).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Stoke-upon-Trent * Stolberg, Christian, Count