The July 2018 update adds forty-three articles (including one family article and one reference group article), containing forty-five biographies, accompanied by seven portrait likenesses. Those entries marked with an asterisk (*) are freely available for a period of three months from publication.
Twenty-six of the newly-added lives are of women. They include lives of women engineers who were active in the first half of the twentieth century, many of them founders or early members of the Women’s Engineering Society (1919). Their biographies have been curated by Anne Locker, Library and Archives Manager of the Institution of Engineering and Technology. Read the full editorial introduction to this month’s update.
New and updated subjects - July 2018
| Benest, Cleone de Heveningham [pseud. C. Griff] (1880–1963), motorist, engineer, and metallurgist |
| Bodington, Alice [née Brooke] (1840–1897), popularizer of science |
| Branford, William Catton (1835–1891), veterinary surgeon |
| Brzeska, Sophie Suzanne Gaudier [née Zofia Stefania Brzeska] (1872–1925), writer and poet |
| Buchanan, Dorothy Donaldson [Dot] (1899–1985) civil engineer |
| Chance family, manufacturers of glass |
| Chitty, Letitia (1897–1982), mathematician and civil engineer* |
| Edwards, Mary (b. ?1741/1742, d. 1815), computer for the Nautical Almanac |
| Elderton, Ethel Mary (1878–1954), statistician and eugenicist |
| Entwisle, Gertrude Lilian (1892–1961), engineer |
| Everett, Alice (1865–1949), astronomer and physicist |
| Fleet [née Currall; former married name Griffiths], Eliza [known as Eliza James] (1855–1927), watercress grower and entrepreneur |
| Goodstein, (Reuben) Louis (1912–1985), mathematician |
| Griffith, Frederick (1877–1941), microbiologist |
| Hamilton, Catherine Jane [pseud. Retlaw Spring] (1841–1935), author and journalist |
| Hewlett [née Herbert], Hilda Beatrice (1864–1943), aviator and aircraft manufacturer |
| Hutchinson, Henry Neville (1856–1927), Church of England clergyman and popularizer of science |
| Jay, Leonard (1888–1963), printer and teacher |
| Jayne, Ethel Clara Basil (1874–1940), laundry owner and women’s welfare organizer |
| Koenig, Friedrich Gottlob (1774–1833), inventor of the steam-driven printing press |
| Laithwaite, Eric Roberts (1921–1997), electrical engineer |
| Lee, Alice Elizabeth (1858–1939), statistician and eugenicist |
| Mair, (William) Austyn (1917–2008), aeronautical engineer |
| Maxwell, Edwin Arthur (1907–1987), mathematician and educationist |
| Moir [née Pennycook], Margaret Bruce, Lady Moir (1864–1942), engineer and women’s rights campaigner* |
| Moir, Sir Ernest William, first Baronet (1862–1933), civil engineer and inventor |
| Neville, Eric Harold (1889–1961), mathematician and educationist |
| Parsons, Rachel Mary (1885–1956), engineer, women’s rights campaigner, and racehorse owner |
| Partridge, Margaret Mary (1891–1967), electrical engineer* |
| Rowbotham, Margaret Dorothea (1883–1978), engineer |
| Ruse, Harold Stanley (1905–1974), mathematician |
| Shaw [married name Pirie], Annie [Anne] Gillespie (1904–1982) production engineer and management consultant |
| Toplis, John (bap. 1775, d. 1857), mathematical teacher and translator |
| Tredwell [née Pickering], Alice (bap. 1823, d. 1867), railway contractor |
| Willett [former name Catt], Henry (1823–1905), brewer and collector |
| Willson [née Buckley], Laura Annie (1877–1942), suffragette, engineer, and businesswoman* |
| Wood [née Chick], Frances (1883–1919), medical statistician |
| Woods [married name Fowke], Hilda Mary (1892–1971), medical statistician and epidemiologist |
| Wright [née Harford], Anne (1793–1861), writer on natural history |
| Yudkin, John (1910–1995), nutritionist |
| Zornlin, Rosina Maria (1795–1859), popularizer of science |
New reference groups - July 2018
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