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Inventor, devoted daughter, or lover? Uncovering the life and work of Victorian naval engineer Henrietta Vansittart (–)
Spring , | Research
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Emily Rees Koerner
Abstract
This article focuses on the life and work of Victorian naval engineer Henrietta Vansittart (–), who designed and patented the Lowe-Vansittart propeller, a model of which is held in the Science Museum collections. Vansittart is a rare example of a woman who practised as an engineer in nineteenth century Britain, yet hitherto she has not been the subject of extensive academic research. This article contributes to wider efforts to recover the multifaceted roles that women have historically played in engineering, which have often been obscured or overlooked.
Using a range of primary sources, including a pamphlet written by Vansittart that is held in the Science Museum Library, alongside newspaper articles, contemporary engineering literature and personal letters, this article seeks to uncover what w
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Pooley Shouldham Henry ( - ):
Clergyman; university administrator
The Reverend Pooley Shouldham Henry was the first President of Queen’s College, Belfast, one of the three constituent colleges of the new Queen’s University in Ireland, which was founded in according to the Irish Colleges Act of that year (lectures commenced in November ); the Irish Universities Act of transformed the Belfast College into the present-day Queen’s University of Belfast.
Henry was born in Randalstown, County Antrim, and educated at the Belfast Academical Institution (later the Royal Belfast Academical Institution) where he later taught. It may have been the liberal ethos of that institution which shaped his own views; he was appointed minister of First Armagh Presbyterian Church in but in some forty families withdrew from his congregation in opposition to his support for a Liberal parliamentary candidate. While in his post, which he held until he was awarded a doctorate in Divinity