Barbara Rawdon Hastings, Marchioness of Hastings, and 20th Baroness Grey de Ruthyn. She was a fossil collector and geological author. She was the only child of Henry Yelverton, 19th Baron Grey de Ruthyn (1780–1810), and of his wife Anna Maria Kelham (1792–1875). At seven months, her father's death made her Baroness Grey of Ruthyn. was an avid collector of fossils, specializing in vertebrates; during her second marriage, she set up her own palaeontological museum. The palaeontologist Richard Owen wrote of the thousands of fossils in her private museum at Efford House, among them "some of the finest in the world". Her knowledge of local geology, especially of the Eocene, and her meticulous work on fossil remains, gave her an expertise which was respected by scholars. The geologist Edward Forbes said she was a 'fossilist' and knows her work.
Barbara Rawdon Hastings, Marchioness of Hastings, and 20th Baroness Grey de Ruthyn. She was a fossil collector and geological author. She was the only child of Henry Yelverton, 19th Baron Grey de Ruthyn (1780–1810), and of his wife Anna Maria Kelham (1792–1875). At seven months, her father's death made her Baroness Grey of Ruthyn. was an avid collector of fossils, specializing in vertebrates; during her second marriage, she set up her own palaeontological museum. The palaeontologist Richard Owen wrote of the thousands of fossils in her private museum at Efford House, among them "some of the finest in the world". Her knowledge of local geology, especially of the Eocene, and her meticulous work on fossil remains, gave her an expertise which was respected by scholars. The geologist Edward Forbes said she was a 'fossilist' and knows her work.
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Paulyn Reginald Serlo Rawdon Hastings
1832–1851
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Edith Maud Rawdon Hastings Abney Hastings
1833–1874
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Barbara Lelgard Rawdon Hastings Clifton
1835–1887
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Henry Weysford Charles Plantagenet Rawdon Hastings
1842–1868
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Lady Frances Augusta Constance Muir Rawdon-Hastings Marsham
1844–1910
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Barbara Yelverton Yarde-Buller
1849–1924
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