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Caplin, Roxey Ann [formerly Emily Roxey Caplin] (1793–1888), corset maker, writer, and lecturer on health  

Sarah Levitt

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Caplin, Roxey Ann [formerly Emily Roxey Caplin] (1793–1888), corset maker, writer, and lecturer on health, was born in Canada, the daughter of English settlers; Canadian Indians taught her canoeing and swimming as a child. Probably trained as a milliner, she married about 1835, and by 1839 was living in ...

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Sturgeon, William (1783–1850)  

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William Sturgeon (1783–1850) by unknown engraver © National Portrait Gallery, London

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Sturgeon, William (1783–1850), electrician and scientific lecturer  

William Gee

revised by Frank A. J. L. James

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Sturgeon, William (1783–1850), electrician and scientific lecturer, was born on 22 May 1783 at Whittington, Lancashire, near Kirkby Lonsdale, the only son of John Sturgeon, shoemaker, and his wife, Betsy Adcock (d. 1793), the daughter of a small shopkeeper. All accounts of his father, who had migrated from ...