Marie Stopes
Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes was a British author, palaeobotanist and campaigner for eugenics and womens rights. She made significant contributions to plant palaeontology and coal classification, and was the first female academic on the faculty of the University of Manchester.
Stopes was born in Edinburgh. Her father, Henry Stopes, was a brewer, engineer, architect and palaeontologist from Colchester. Her mother was Charlotte Carmichael Stopes, a Shakespearean scholar and womens rights campaigner from Edinburgh. At six weeks old, her parents took Stopes from Scotland the family stayed briefly in Colchester then moved to London, where in 1880 her father boughtCintra Park in Upper Norwood. Both of her parents were members of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, where they had met. Marie was taken to meetings where she met the famous scholars of the day. At first, she was homeschooled, but from 1892 to 1894 she attended St Georges School for Girls in Edinburgh. Stopes was later sent to the North London Collegiate School, where she was a close friend of Olga FrbeKapteyn.
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