The summer Mary was thirteen she lived at Jedburgh and there, from her Liberal uncle Thomas Somerville
, found her first significant intellectual encouragement: for the first time in my life, I met ....
Birth
Mary Somerville
The manse where she was born belonged to Mary's aunt and uncle, Martha
and the Rev. Dr Thomas Somerville
, whose son Mary would later wed. Mary's mother was too ill to nurse, and this...
