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Eveline Alicia Juliana Herbert (1834 – 1906) was the daughter of Henry Herbert, 3rd Earl of Carnarvon and his wife Henrietta. On 15 Feb 1855 she married Isaac Fellowes (Wallop) who became the 5th Earl of Portsmouth. The family had estates around Lymington in Hampshire but in 1794 had also inherited the Fellowes Estate in Eggesford, Devon. She and Isaac had twelve children including Newton, who succeeded to the title of Earl of Portsmouth on his father’s death in 1891.

Eveline signed one of the early petitions presented by members of the suffrage movement to the Houses of Parliament. To accompany her signature of the petition she sent a letter to Mrs Fawcett dated 7 May 1892, saying that she ‘gladly signs the enclosed.' In 1889, the Countess was President of the Bristol and West of England Society [for Women's Suffrage]. (Rendel 2008, p130)

For more information see also:

Margherita Rendel, ‘The campaign in Devon for Women’s Suffrage, 1866-1908’, Transactions of the Devonshire Association, 2008, vol. 140, p.111-151.

https://www.devonhistorysociety.org.uk/portsmouth-countess-of/

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David Price first surveyed seabirds on Lundy with Martin Davies in 1981, with their join work continuing in 1982 and 1986. Since then David, with Peter Slader, have organised complete counts of the island's cliff nesting seabirds in 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2013 before handling over to Helen Booker and Tim Frayling in 2017. Over the years many volunteers have helped with these counts. This work was one of the factors which led to the RSPB-led Seabird Recovery Project on Lundy.

During the Seabird Recovery Project, David organised surveys of Manx Shearwater burrows with Helen Booker of the RSPB. He also collaborated with Tony Taylor to capture and ring Manx Shearwater chicks when they leave their burrows in early Autumn.

David was one of the people who inspired me to continue my Guillemot studies on Lundy.

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Eunice Newton Foote (July 17, 1819 – September 30, 1888) was an American scientist (including biology, especially botany), an inventor, and a women's rights campaigner from Seneca Falls, New York.

She was the first scientist known to have experimented on the warming effect of sunlight on different gases, and went on to theorize that changing the proportion of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would change its temperature, in her paper Circumstances affecting the heat of the sun's rays at the American Association for the Advancement of Science conference in 1856. Although it appears that women were allowed to present papers to AAAS at that time, Professor Joseph Henry of the Smithsonian Institution delivered the paper that identified the research as her work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eunice_Newton_Foote

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Tom Rivett-Carnac is a Founding Partner of Global Optimism, co-presenter of climate podcast, Outrage + Optimism, and co-author of The Future We Choose: The Stubborn Optimist's Guide to the Climate Crisis.

Tom Rivett-Carnac is a political strategist, author and podcaster. He has spent more than 20 years working to address the climate and ecological crises.

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Tom holds a BSc (Hons) from Bath Spa University, an MSc from Schumacher College and an honorary PhD from Knox College. He lives with his wife and two children in Devon, where he enjoys staring out of the window and watching nature slowly reclaim their ten acres of land.

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Margaret Kelly, Suffragist

Margaret Kelly (1877 – 1974), born in Salcombe, was the eldest daughter of Rev. Maitland Kelly and his wife Agnes Clare. She had three full brothers and sisters. Her mother died in 1885 and Maitland married again, two years later, Elfreda Carey, with whom he had a further four children. The Kelly family moved to Ottery St Mary, where Maitland became vicar. Elfreda, whose stepchildren were very fond of her, died in 1891, shortly after the birth of her son Reginald. Although her father’s sister-in-law Ella came to help look after the family, Margaret gradually took on responsibility for the running of the household. Margaret and her sisters were educated at home by a governess.

In 1899 Maitland Kelly inherited Kelly House at Kelly in West Devon from his brother Reginald. He came to live at Kelly as squire and rector, although the church was also served by a vicar. The family had six indoor servants in 1901, in addition to the governess.

The Launceston branch of the NUWSS was established in 1913, after an abortive attempt to launch one in 1911, and covered parishes and communities in West Devon as well as in Cornwall. Alice Wevill of St Mary’s Vicarage Launceston became the secretary and Miss Kelly of Kelly House the treasurer. There is little recorded about the activity of the branch: Frances Balfour was due to speak at a public meeting there in November 1913, and Common Cause advertised a branch garden-party to be held on June 11 1914.

https://www.devonhistorysociety.org.uk/kelly-miss-margaret/