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 Hirschel

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. (2004-09-23). Hardcastle, Frances (1866–1941), mathematician. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/64021.
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.