Guglielmo Marconi was born near Bologna, Italy, on April 25, 1874, son of Giuseppe Marconi and Annie Jameson. He was educated both publicly and privately. Even as a little boy he took an interest in physical and electrical science and studied the works of Maxwell, Hertz, Righi, Lodge and others. In 1895 he began lab experiments at his father's country estate in Pontecchio where he succeeded in sending wireless signals over a distance of one and a half …showed first 75 words of 865 total…

…showed last 75 words of 865 total…Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order in England. He received the hereditary title of Marchese in 1929. In 1905 he married the Hon. Beatrice O'Brien, daughter of the 14th Baron Inchiquin, the marriage being annulled in 1927, in which year he married the Countess Bezzi-Scali of Rome. He had one son and two daughters by his first and one daughter by his second wife. His recreations were hunting, cycling and motoring. Marconi died in Rome on July 20, 1937.