Constance Anne Herschel

Constance Anne Herschel (1855 - 1939), later known as Lady Lubbock, was a scientist and mathematician.

Constance Anne Herschel as a child, far left, posing with the other daughters of John Herschel

Herschel held the post of resident lecturer in natural sciences and mathematics at Girton College, Cambridge.[1]

She was the child of Sir John Frederick William Herschel, and the grandchild of William Herschel. She wrote a family history of the famous scientific dynasty by compiling family sources, 'The Herschel Chronicle'.[2]

She married Sir Neville Lubbock.

References
  1. Davis, A. E. L. (23 September 2004). "Hardcastle, Frances (1866–1941), mathematician". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/64021. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. Lubbock, Constance Anne (1933). The Herschel Chronicle. The life-story of William Herschel and his sister Caroline Herschel. [Consisting for the most part of extracts from their autobiographical notes and journals and from their correspondence.] Edited by his granddaughter C. A. Lubbock. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.


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