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Hertha Ayrton

Photograph at the Hertha Ayrton blue plaque

Hertha Ayrton engineer, physicist and inventor. First woman to be nominated as a Fellow of the Royal Society. Suffragette and vigorous supporter of Women's right. Born in Portsea on the site of this building in 1854.

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Source: Open Plaques. Geographic data via OpenStreetMap.

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  • © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence.
  • Historic England, National Heritage List for England, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. War memorial records are drawn from open community datasets (OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, NHLE) — never from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, which is excluded.

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