Eleanor Glanville facts for kids
Quick facts for kids
Lady Eleanor Glanville
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Eleanor Goodricke
1654 Tickenham, England
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| Died | 1709 Tickenham, England
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| Known for | Discovery of the Glanville Fritillary |
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| Fields | Entomology |
Lady Eleanor Glanville (born Goodricke; c. 1654 – 1709) was a 17th-century English entomologist from Tickenham in Somerset.
Biography
Eleanor Goodricke was born circa 1654 to William Goodricke and Eleanor Davis Poyntz, daughter of Rice Davis and Mary Pitt. Eleanor Davis was the widow of Nicholas Poyntz, a descendant of the Poyntz family, anciently feudal barons of Curry Mallet in Somerset, later of Iron Acton in Gloucestershire.
Goodricke married Edmund Ashfield and after his death Richard Glanville. She later discovered the Lincolnshire Fritillary in the Lincolnshire Wolds – which was renamed the Glanville Fritillary ─ one of only two native British butterflies named after British entomologists.
She pursued her interest in entomology after separating from her second husband, and tried to leave her money away from her immediate family. However, on her death, her children overturned her will, arguing that she was insane because of her hobby.
Eleanor Glanville died in the early months of 1709.
Entomologist
Lady Glanville was particularly interested in butterflies. She collected large numbers of butterfly specimens, many of which survive as some of the earliest specimens kept in the Natural History Museum. She would beat the hedges for "a parcel of wormes", neighbours reported.
The Glanville fritillary butterfly is named after her.
In culture
In 2009, Fiona Mountain published a novel about Glanville's life.
Images for kids
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Tickenham Court in Tickenham, Somerset
See also
In Spanish: Eleanor Glanville para niños
