Royal Society
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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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Isham | 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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Margaretta Larpent | 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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Deborah Norris Logan | George was grandson of James Logan
, a wealthy Philadelphian fur trader, scientist and bibliophile. In England on a visit at the time of an eclipse of the sun on 22 May 1724, James wrote... |
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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