Royal Society

Anna's father, John George Children , was an amateur scientist during his years as a gentleman of leisure, and made a living from scientific work when that became necessary. He was twice Secretary of the...

AA enjoyed unusual acceptance into traditionally masculine circles including learned societies, as a result of her father's involvement in (especially) the British Museum and the Royal Society . She became a pioneer in the field...

John Evelyn , as a member of the Royal Society , several times visited the Duke and Duchess of Newcastle (sometimes with his wife ) to arrange their visit to the Society.

Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle , on a rare visit to London with her husband , was entertained by the Royal Society as a distinguished visitor.

This has only a single prefatory piece. Cavendish here makes use of empirical science: the Royal Society 's experiments with blood transfusion, recently reported.

Her father, Captain Charles Granville Wheler , was a great-nephew of Sir George Wheler , a traveller, clergyman, scholar, and early member of the Royal Society , who had a family estate in Kent. (...

Lewis Weston Dillwyn , EAD 's paternal grandfather and the Quaker son of a famous abolitionist, owned the Cambrian pottery in Swansea. In 1804 he became a fellow of the Royal Society on the...

Judith was married to James Drake : Fellow of the Royal Society , physician and writer on medicine and politics, and they had at least two children, one of each sex. ...

By this time Dryden's two careers as writer and dramatist were well launched. The first depended on his ability to please the Stuart court, and the second on his ability to please a theatre audience...

A strangely static book, this novel is in form a stream of reminiscence by an aged female protagonist, who mixes past and present, without consecutive narrative. (This is actually a slightly more conventional version than...

Her recent chapters in books include Beyond Ending in Bill Bryson 's Seeing Further: The Story of Science and the Royal Society, 2010 (whose other contributors include Margaret Atwood and David Attenborough ), Living...

CH 's An Account of a New Comet (her recent discovery) was read for her at a meeting of the Royal Society . The account was printed by John Nichols as a pamphlet the following year.

The Royal Society issued, with her name, CH 's Catalogue of Stars, an updating and radical expansion of Flamsteed 's canonical but by now inadequate catalogue of fixed stars (published in 1725).

Their brother, later Sir Justinian Isham (1611-75), became a royalist during the Civil War and a founder member of the Royal Society . He married in 1634, and his wife, Jane, had five babies (all...

AML 's father, Sir James Porter , who as a young man had gone into business after a comparatively scanty education, later became a distinguished diplomat (he was British Ambassador at Constantinople when Anna Margaretta...