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    Mary Everest Boole

    Mary Everest was the daughter of Reverend Thomas Roupell Everest (1800-1855), Rector of Wickwar, and Mary Ryall (born 1815). Thomas Everest had one brother, George Everest (1790-1866), who was the surveyor and geographer after whom Mount Everest was named. Mary Ryall had a brother John Ryall who became Vice President and Professor of Greek at Queen's College, Cork. After Mary Everest married George Boole she became known as Mary Everest Boole. For simplicity, we shall refer to her as Mary Boole throughout this biography. She had a brother, George John Everest (1835-1908) who became vicar of Teynham in Kent.

    Thomas Everest studied at Pembroke College, Cambridge and was ordained in 1826. He was a priest at Bristol Cathedral before becoming rector of Wickwar, near Chipping Sodbury in Gloucestershire, in 1830. On 27 September 1830 he married Mary Ryall; their daughter Mary (the subject of this biography) was born in 1832 and their son George in 1835. In 1837 an i
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    Person: Boole (2), Mary Everest

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    Mary Everest Boole was an English mathematician who was married to George Boole. She wrote a number of books on mathematical education.

    Mathematical Profile (Excerpt):

    • For simplicity, we shall refer to her as Mary Boole throughout this biography.
    • Thomas Everest studied at Pembroke College, Cambridge and was ordained in 1826.
    • In 1837 an influenza epidemic swept through England leaving Thomas Everest as an invalid.
    • While in France, Mary Boole became bilingual in French and English.
    • Mary writes that Deplace was educated in the French school of mathematics.
    • "If only she could go to Cambridge and study mathematics she would carry everything before her," he said, "but what could a girl do learning mathematics." Mary was shocked to learn that she could not go to university, she could not study mathematics and she would never meet the famous Charles Babbage.
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      Boole, Mary Elizabeth (Everest) (1832 – 1916)

      Mary Elizabeth (Everest) Boole (11 March 1832 – 17 May 1916) was a mathematician, author, reformer, and Spiritualist. She was the daughter of homeopath Thomas Roupell Everest and Mary Ryall (1809 – 1895). Her grandfather was Dr. Isaac Ryall (1777 – 1846) who partnered with fellow physicians Richard Grattan (1790 – 1886) & John Eustace (1791 – 1867) to found The Asylum and House of Recovery for Persons affected with Disorders of the Mind, later Hampstead Hospital, in Dublin.

      Mary was a friend of Mary Fairfax Greig Somerville and was a correspondent of homeopathic supporter Charles Darwin.

      When Mary was fem, the family moved to Poissy (France) to visit Samuel Hahnemann, the founder of homeopathic medicine, as Thomas Roupell Everest was seriously ill and they were seeking a cure.

      Mary became very close to her father during their time in France, and she even participated in his homeopathic tre