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BENETT, ETHELDRED (1776-1845)

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BENETT, ETHELDRED (1776-1845) , one of the earliest of See also:English See also:women geologists, the second daughter of See also:Thomas Benett, of Pyt See also:House near Tisbury, was See also:born in 1176. Later she resided at See also:Norton House, near See also:Warminster, in See also:Wiltshire, and for more than a See also:quarter of a See also:century devoted herself to See also:collecting and studying the fossils of her native See also:county. She contributed " A See also:Catalogue of the Organic Remains of the County of Wilts " to See also:Sir R. C. See also:Hoare's County See also:History, and a limited number of copies of this See also:work were printed as a See also:separate See also:volume (1831) and privately distributed. She died on the 11th of See also:January 1845.

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