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Etheldred Benett

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English geologist and paleontologist (1776-1845)

ScientistsLived 1776 to 1845 · aged 68
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Etheldred Anna Maria Benett was an early English geologist who devoted much of her life to collecting and studying fossils that she discovered in South West England.

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Notes on Chicksgrove Quarry, 1815Notes on Chicksgrove Quarry, 1815Information board commemorating 'The First Lady Geologist' in the churchyard of All Saints Parish Church, Norton Bavant.Information board commemorating 'The First Lady Geologist' in the churchyard of All Saints Parish Church, Norton Bavant.Sketches of fossil Alyconia, 1816Sketches of fossil Alyconia, 1816Watercolour of meteorite, 1825Watercolour of meteorite, 1825

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Etheldred Anna Maria Benett was an early English geologist who devoted much of her life to collecting and studying fossils that she discovered in South West England. She worked closely with many principal geologists and her fossil collection, considered one of the largest at the time, played a part in the development of geology as a field of science.

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Lived 1776 to 1845 · aged 68
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