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Annie Hughes Griffiths

Annie Jane Davies was one of the ten children of Frances (née Humphreys) and Robert Joseph Davies, born in 1873. Members of the family, including her parents and several siblings, were well-connected and leading figures in both local political and religious life. They lived in Cwrt Mawr, a large Georgian mansion near Llangeitho village in Wales. She was sent to schools in Aberystwyth, London and Chester.

She spent most of her life in either Aberystwyth or London. She was at the University College of Wales in Aberystwyth for three years but did not undertake degree studies. She became a public figure due to association with the University College of Wales, the campaign for a Welsh National Library, and membership of the Welsh chapel in Charing Cross.

While she was in London from 1895, housekeeping for two of her brothers, she met Thomas (Tom) Edward Ellis, the Liberal MP for Meirionethshire. They married in June 1898. His health declined, and they went to Cannes in France for him to recover. However, he died in April 1899. She gave birth to their child, Thomas Iorweth in December 1899. In 1916 she married again, to Reverend Peter Hughes Griffiths, the minister at the Welsh chapel in Charing Cross, London.

Nick Longrich is a paleontologist and evolutionary biologist, especially studying dinosaurs.

Early life
Nicholas Roy Longrich studied at Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princetown University from 1994, graduating with a BA degree in 1998. He then took an MSc in Organismal Biology and Anatomy at University of Chicago in 200 before undertaking doctoral research with Anthony P. Russell at University of Calgary, being awarded a PhD in 2008 for research on the flight of Archaeopteryx lithographica.

Career
Longrich was a postdoctoral researcher at Yale University from 2009 until 2012. He has been a senior lecturer at University of Bath, UK since 2013. His research focuses on macroevolution, especially utilising the fossil record. Areas he has studies are large scale adaptations such as flight. He has been involved in identifying several new species of dinosaur. In 2018 Longrich was disciplined by University of Bath for breaching its anti-harassment policy.

He was a guest on the BBC Radio 4 programme The Life Scientific in April 2024.

Publications
Longrich is the author or co-author of over 85 scientific publications. Some of the most significant are:


 * Longrich, N., Dalman, S. G., Loewen, M. A., Pyron, R. A., Jasinski, S. E., Malinzak, E., Lucas, S. G., Fiorillo, A. R. & Currie, P. J., (2024) A giant tyrannosaur from the Campanian–Maastrichtian of southern North America and the evolution of tyrannosaurid gigantism. Scientific Reports. 13, issue 1, 11 p., 22124.
 * Longrich, N., Sciberras, J. & Wills, M. (2016) Severe extinction and rapid recovery of mammals across the Cretaceous–Palaeogene boundary, and the effects of rarity on patterns of extinction and recovery. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 29 issue 8, p. 1495-1512
 * Martill, D. M., Tischlinger, H. & Longrich, N. R. (2015) A four-legged snake from the Early Cretaceous of Gondwana. Science 349 issue 6246, p. 416-419
 * Vinther, J., Stein, M., Longrich, N. R. & Harper, D. A. T. (2014) A suspension-feeding anomalocarid from the Early Cambrian. Nature 507 issue 7493, p. 496-499
 * Longrich, N. R., Tokaryk, T. & Field, D. (2011) Mass extinction of birds at the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 108, issue 37, p. 15253-15257
 * Longrich, N. (2006) An ornithurine bird from the Late Cretaceous of Alberta, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 43, 1, p. 1-7

Greta Sernander lichenologist, wife Gustaf Einar Du Rietz.

Specimens in Uni Uni Wisconsin Madison herbarium. https://lichenportal.org/portal//collections/individual/index.php?occid=2566394

Greta Sernander-DuRietz - The first female Swedish lichenologist January 2006 Svensk Botanisk Tidskrift 100(4):256-260 P.M. Jørgensen Louise Lindblom

This is a tribute to the first female Swedish lichenologlist, Greta Sernander-DuRietz (1897-1981), who had no formal training or exams in botany, but picked up lichenology mainly from her father, the famous professor Rutger Sernander at Växtbio, Uppsala. Her mainly floristic-ecological research came to an abrupt stop after her marriage to the botanist G. Einar DuRietz in 1924. She went with him to New Zealand in 1926-27, where she played an important part in collecting and preserving specimens. Not until after their divorce in 1951 did she work with lichens again. She took up some of her old themes with zest, and made new discoveries just as if no time had passed, and was active until her death.

Early life
Greta Sernander-DuRietz was born in 19 xx to Rutger and Serenader.

She married Gustaf Einar Du Rietz in 1924. They had 4 children together, one of whom died at a young age. They were divorced in 1951 after a few difficult years.

Scientific career
Specimens that Serander collected are in several herbaria including University of Wisconsin - Madison

Publications
Nearing was the author or co-author of:


 * G. G. Nearing (1947) The Lichen Book: Handbook of the Lichen of Northeastern United States Published N.J. Ridgewood, 648 pp

Personal life
He had very strong Roman Catholic religious beliefs that led to his work to support homeless people. He married Marie-Therese McQuade (later known as Marie-Therese Gibson-Watt) in 1967.

Career
Wallich-Clifford had been in the RAF and then a probation officer in London during the 1950s and 1960s. His experience with the homeless made him want to try a different approach to what was then in use, that took into account the mental heath of many homeless people.

He was the co-founder of the Simon Community, with Sally Trench or Eddie Linden in 1963 and gave talks about the UK to promote the charity and his ideas. The key feature was that the homeless and charity volunteers were equals and that the homeless were accepted as they were and not expected to change. Other charities for the homeless, such as St Mungo's, Centrepoint and the Cyrenians were founded by people influenced by him, or who had previously worked with the Simon Community.

Wallich-Clifford started the first Simon Community in London.

Publications
Wallich-Clifford published several books. These included:


 * Anton Wallich-Clifford (1929 No Fixed Abode Simon Community Trust, 192pp, Second edition ISBN 978-0951431108


 * Anton Wallich-Clifford (1982) Caring On Skid Row: A Study Of Grassroots Caring With The Rootless And Homeless The Simon Community


 * Anton Wallich-Clifford (1968) The Simon scene: A brief outline of the concepts and principles behind the Simon Community venture in care. Housmans, 47 pp

Early life and education
Jacinta Tan was born in Singapore to parents who were both medical doctors.

She has degrees in Philosophy and Psychology (BA then MA from Oxford), Child Health (Masters with Distinction from Warwick University) and Sociology (DPhil from Oxford University). She also qualified as a medical doctor at

Career
Tan is one of the psychiatrists featured in the 25 Women project of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 2021. She was the guest on the BBC Radio 4 programme The Life Scientific in June 2022.

She has been open about the bouts of depression that she has suffered, initiated firstly during medical studies in Singapore and later racism and bullying when studying in the UK.