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Ada lovelace
JOSEPH LISTER
charles dickens
eMMELINE pANKHURST
fLORENCE nIGHTINGALE
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Ada Lovelace was an English mathematician and writer. Ada was the only child of Lord Byron and his wife Anne Milbanke. Lord Byron, the famous poet, deserted his family and Anne taught her everything about mathematics and logic. Ada loved mathematics. Ada met Charles Babbage and he chose her to translate a paper from French, the Analytical Engine, a mechanical computer. The machine enchanted her and she started to think about how to use it. She wrote an algorithm for the machine and so, she became the world's first computer programmer in history. She married William King Noel in 1835 and they had 3 children. They lived in London
Date / place of Birth1815 London Date /place of Death London, 1852
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Charles Dickens was an English writer. His family was rich sometimes but his father was bad at managing money. When Charles was 12, he started working at the factory, it was horrible, but it inspired him. He then wrote about poor people and their situations. At 20, he became an actor and while acting, he started to write books. He wrote more than thirty books. He published one of his first successful books in 1838, Oliver Twist. He married Catherine Thomson Hogarth in 1836 and they had 10 children. They lived in London. TThey li
CharlesDickens
Date/place of Birth February 1812 Portsmouth Date of Death Kent June 1870
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Joseph Lister was a British surgeon. He was good at German and French and was, in overall, an excellent student. He studied at the University of London and then became the assistant of a surgeon at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. At that time, the medical staff didn't wash their hands and wounds became easily infected. Lister started experimenting with chemicals to cure the infection and he found one. He introduced carbolic acid to sterilise surgical instruments and clean wounds. He created the first antiseptic. He married Agnes in 1856 but they didn't have any children.
Joseph Lister
Date of Birth April 1827 London Date of Death Walmer February 1912
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When Emmeline Pankhurst was born, women couldn't vote but men could. She went to school in Paris and studied politics later. In 1818, women working at a factory in London went on strike to improve their working conditions. Emmeline supported the strike and created the Women's Social and Political Union also known as the Suffragettes, in 1903. There were a group of women fighting for women's right. They published a newspaper called Votes for Women. They even broke the law to protest in the street! The British government allowed women over 30 to vote in 1918 She had 5 children. She lived in London.
EmmelinePankhurst
Date /place of Birth July 1858 Manchester Date /place of Death London 14 June 1928
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Florence nightingale
Florence Nightingale was a nurse who saved many lives in the 19th century. In 1851, she went to Germany and studied to become a nurse. In 1854, soldiers were sent to the Crimean War and many died because hospitals, at that time, were dirty and horrible places. Florence and some nurses went to help. They worked hard to make the hospital a cleaner place. She brought soldiers fresh food, she cleaned the bedsheets and she cleaned the wounds. Fewer men were dying. She never married and had no children. She lived in different places throughout her life, in England and abroad. Queen Victoria wrote her a letter to thank her. The government gave her the Order of Merit, the first woman to ever receive it.
Date/place of BirthMay 1820 Italy Date/place of Death London 13 August 1910
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Famous Victorians
Enter
Ada lovelace
JOSEPH LISTER
charles dickens
eMMELINE pANKHURST
fLORENCE nIGHTINGALE
MENU
aDA LOVELACE
Ada Lovelace was an English mathematician and writer. Ada was the only child of Lord Byron and his wife Anne Milbanke. Lord Byron, the famous poet, deserted his family and Anne taught her everything about mathematics and logic. Ada loved mathematics. Ada met Charles Babbage and he chose her to translate a paper from French, the Analytical Engine, a mechanical computer. The machine enchanted her and she started to think about how to use it. She wrote an algorithm for the machine and so, she became the world's first computer programmer in history. She married William King Noel in 1835 and they had 3 children. They lived in London
Date / place of Birth1815 London Date /place of Death London, 1852
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Charles Dickens was an English writer. His family was rich sometimes but his father was bad at managing money. When Charles was 12, he started working at the factory, it was horrible, but it inspired him. He then wrote about poor people and their situations. At 20, he became an actor and while acting, he started to write books. He wrote more than thirty books. He published one of his first successful books in 1838, Oliver Twist. He married Catherine Thomson Hogarth in 1836 and they had 10 children. They lived in London. TThey li
CharlesDickens
Date/place of Birth February 1812 Portsmouth Date of Death Kent June 1870
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Joseph Lister was a British surgeon. He was good at German and French and was, in overall, an excellent student. He studied at the University of London and then became the assistant of a surgeon at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. At that time, the medical staff didn't wash their hands and wounds became easily infected. Lister started experimenting with chemicals to cure the infection and he found one. He introduced carbolic acid to sterilise surgical instruments and clean wounds. He created the first antiseptic. He married Agnes in 1856 but they didn't have any children.
Joseph Lister
Date of Birth April 1827 London Date of Death Walmer February 1912
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When Emmeline Pankhurst was born, women couldn't vote but men could. She went to school in Paris and studied politics later. In 1818, women working at a factory in London went on strike to improve their working conditions. Emmeline supported the strike and created the Women's Social and Political Union also known as the Suffragettes, in 1903. There were a group of women fighting for women's right. They published a newspaper called Votes for Women. They even broke the law to protest in the street! The British government allowed women over 30 to vote in 1918 She had 5 children. She lived in London.
EmmelinePankhurst
Date /place of Birth July 1858 Manchester Date /place of Death London 14 June 1928
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Florence nightingale
Florence Nightingale was a nurse who saved many lives in the 19th century. In 1851, she went to Germany and studied to become a nurse. In 1854, soldiers were sent to the Crimean War and many died because hospitals, at that time, were dirty and horrible places. Florence and some nurses went to help. They worked hard to make the hospital a cleaner place. She brought soldiers fresh food, she cleaned the bedsheets and she cleaned the wounds. Fewer men were dying. She never married and had no children. She lived in different places throughout her life, in England and abroad. Queen Victoria wrote her a letter to thank her. The government gave her the Order of Merit, the first woman to ever receive it.
Date/place of BirthMay 1820 Italy Date/place of Death London 13 August 1910