Lucy Everest Boole

Lucy Everest Boole was born in 1862 in Blackrock, County Cork, Ireland, where her father, mathematician George Boole, held a professorship at Queen's College. Her mother, Mary Everest Boole, was a self-taught mathematician, and Lucy was one of five sisters who would become notable in their own right. The family returned to Britain after George Boole's death in 1864, leaving them in poverty, but Lucy went on to become the first woman to research pharmacy in England and the first female professor at the London School of Medicine for Women.