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Florence Joy Tebb
"Florence Weldon (née Tebb) was the wife of (Walter Frank) Raphael Weldon, zoologist, biometrician and statistician. He held the Linacre Chair of Comparative Anatomy at Oxford, 1899-1906. Florence Weldon accompanied Raphael on his research trips, working with him on the data. She survived him by 30 years, leaving her estate to found the Weldon Chair of Biometry at UCL on her death in 1936 ."

b. 26 February 1858 in Blackstone, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States d. 18 October 1936 (78) Oxford, Oxfordshire, England

=== Oxford’s female computing pioneers === For centuries a “computer” was a human who computed, initially entirely by hand, with mechanical calculators, and devices for collating data stored on punched cards, more common from around 1900. Records are sparse, but there are many examples where the data analysis and detailed calculation underpinning scientific papers were done by women, often uncredited, and unpaid. Right from the start of modern digital computing in Oxford, in the 1950s, women were involved in every aspect of research, teaching, and providing computing support across the university.

Florence Joy Weldon, nee Tebb (1858–1936) studied mathematics at Girton College, Cambridge, and worked closely with her husband, Raphael Weldon, Oxford’s Linacre Chair of Zoology, applying techniques developed by the statisticians Francis Galton and Karl Pearson to biological data. For example, in 1892, 23 measurements were taken from each of 1000 adult female shore crabs from the Bay of Naples, and analysed to show that 22 of the 23 features were normally distributed, and one was bimodal. In his lifetime, Weldon’s papers did not mention his wife: manuscripts completed by Pearson after his death acknowledge “F. J. W.”. Florence Weldon gave a significant collection of French paintings to Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum, where a gallery is named for her.

Personal Life
Her father was William Tebb and her sister was Mary Christine Tebb. She married Walter Frank Raphael Weldon on the14th of March 1883.

"The Weldons and Tebbs had been intimate friends for many years, and Miss Tebb had been at Girton while Raphael Weldon was at St John's. They married on the anniversary of his parents' wedding day. Rede Hall had been the house of both William Tebb and Walter Weldon, Florence Tebb and Raphael's fathers.

"Meanwhile a great change had come over Weldon's personal life. On March 14, 1883, the anniversary of his parents' wedding-day, he was married to Miss Florence Tebb, the eldest daughter of William Tebb, now of Rede Hall, Burstow, Surrey, which formerly, after he left Merton, had been the house of Walter Weldon. The Weldons and Tebbs had been intimate friends for many years, and Miss Tebb had been at Girton while Raphael Weldon was at St John's. At Cambridge the new Statutes had just come into force, marriage was the order of the day, and houses were even difficult to procure. The Weldons on their return from a tour in France took Henry Fawcett's furnished house and settled down in Cambridge for the May term. Raphael Weldon still had his scholarship, and he was demonstrating for Sedgwick. He was now compelled to undertake "coaching," — work which he gave up as soon as his means would allow of it, for his whole heart was then as afterwards in research. Still this coaching work brought him in touch with many men who afterwards distinguished themselves in biological or other fields ."