Mary Fairfax (1780–1804)
Mary Greig (1804–1812)
Mary Somerville (1812–1872)

Writer on science and mathematics. Author of a condensed English version of Laplace’s Mécanique céleste (1831), and of On the connexion of the physical sciences (1834). Advocate of higher education for women and women’s suffrage.

Sources

BDWS

DSB

ODNB.

Volumes

1,4,14,17,18,22,WSL,27