William Smith: The Family Man 2016
With thanks to Oxford University Museum of Natural History who are curating this exhibition, and to Nina Morgan, author of The Geology of Oxford Gravestones, for her help and advice.
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With thanks to Oxford University Museum of Natural History who are curating this exhibition, and to Nina Morgan, author of The Geology of Oxford Gravestones, for her help and advice.
Elizabeth Bourne (1549-1599)
Who controversially petitioned for divorce from her philandering husband and left letters which are now considered a most significant and valuable historical source of early modern literature and inform a greater understanding of women’s negotiations for legal autonomy in the sixteenth century.
A seventeenth-century eccentric
Anne Walter (Unknown – 1707)
Who lived in fear of being murdered but left a trust which is still providing grants for education purposes.
A nineteenth-century grocer
Emily Jennings (1814-1885)
Whose legacy launched a village charity.
A twentieth-century High Sheriff
Judy Hutchinson (1916-1989)
Whose secret war work has never been fully acknowledged.