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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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Florence Marryat | Captain Frederick Marryat
, FM
's father, was a distinguished naval officer renowned for conspicuous gallantry, a Fellow of the Royal Society
and member of the Légion d'Honneur
, a spectacular success as a novelist... |
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 | Mary More | Her son, Richard Waller
, was an artist, poet, and natural philosopher or scientist. He served as Secretary to the Royal Society
from 1687 to 1709, and edited posthumous works by Robert Hooke
. Makin, Bathsua et al. Educating English Daughters. Editors Teague, Frances et al., Iter Academic Press; Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2016. 108, 109 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary More | 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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Atkins | 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... |
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 | 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. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Judith Drake |
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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Bathsua Makin | Her father, Henry Reginald
, was a schoolmaster in the parish of St Mary Axe, London, an author, and a friend of the poet Michael Drayton
. He was reasonably prosperous, intellectually active, and... |
Friends, Associates | Margaret Cavendish | 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. Cavendish, Margaret. Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader. Editors Bowerbank, Sylvia and Sara Heller Mendelson, Broadview, 2000. 91 |