Elizabeth Carne
Geologist, Author
1817 – 1873
Who was Elizabeth Carne?
Elizabeth Catherine Thomas Carne was a British geologist, conchologist, banker, natural philosopher and mineral collector. Today we would probably place her contributions to science in the realm of human ecology writes a recent author. She was the fifth daughter of eight children born to Joseph Carne, F.R.S., and his wife Mary Thomas Carne of Glamorgan.Elizabeth was born at Rivière House, in the parish of Phillack,near Hayle Cornwall, United Kingdom, and baptised in Phillack church on 15 May 1820. At Riviere House the cellars were fitted out as laboratories where smelting processes of copper and tin were tested, and minerals and rocks studied for their constituents. To that laboratory had come, before she was born, such as Davies Gilbert, bringing with him the young Humphry Davy to view the workings of a scientific environment. Born into a wealthy and influential Methodist family of mine owners and merchants, Elizabeth was acutely aware throughout her life of the poverty and deprivation in surrounding mining areas, and the dire need for education and social support for those less fortunate. She read widely, studied mathematics and the classics, and learned several languages.
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