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under Judith Drake
Royal Society
Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Selina Davenport | 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. (... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | E. A. Dillwyn | 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... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Judith Drake | 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. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Nihell | 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... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Stewart | 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... |
| Anthologization | Maggie Gee | 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... |
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