Royal Society

RP has seen her commitment to poetry as including a commitment to encouraging and instructing readers of it. Invited by the Poetry Society to stand for election as its Chair, she was persuaded to do...

When she was first in London AW found plenty to occupy her, both activities undertaken for interest and those undertaken for earnings to support herself and her father. She became an assistant to Zachary Williams

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...

She had lost her brother to smallpox, and narrowly escaped herself. She probably went to Turkey primed with accounts which had reached the Royal Society in London of the Turkish practice of inoculation, and determined...

Nineteenth-century literary historians—Charles Dibdin , John Doran , Jane Williams —tended, though from different viewpoints, to subordinate her writings to her supposed personal characteristics. More disappointingly, a feminist literary historian of the early...

In London the Somervilles enjoyed participating in a rich scientific community: Mary's time there was much happier than during her first marriage. She attended many lectures at the Royal Institution , and took lessons in...

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.

MM ' daughter, Elizabeth , was seventeen when she was married, on 17 April 1680, to Alexander Pitfield , a close friend and associate of her brother. Pitfield was treasurer to the Royal Society from...

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 1754 she was back in London with her husband, who was apparently the James Nihell , surgeon-apothecary and Fellow of the Royal Society , from a distinguished medical family, who died on 1 June...

While she was successfully pursuing her writing, he was building up the University of Edinburgh 's Earth Science department, tripling its size. Among his many accomplishments and honours, he was elected a Fellow of the...

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...