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Alice Hutchison (1845–98)

Scottish-born friend of the Darwin family. Her stepfather, Richard Shaen, was a Unitarian minister in Royston, Hertfordshire, and brother to William Shaen. CD knew William Shaen through Shaen’s role between 1865 and 1869 in the committee opposed to the brutal martial law regime in Jamaica.

Sources

BMD (Death index)

Census returns of England and Wales 1851 (The National Archives: Public Record Office HO107/1783/330/21), 1871 (RG10/1361/80/11)

Correspondence vol. 23, letter to Herbert Spencer, 13 November 1875

ODNB s.v. Jamaica Committee

Ruston 1979, p. 21