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    Mary Frances Lyon FRS (15 May 1925 – 25 December 2014) was an English geneticist best known for her discovery of X-chromosome inactivation, an important...
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    Mary Frances Elphinstone, Lady Elphinstone GCVO (née Bowes-Lyon; 30 August 1883 – 8 February 1961), was a British aristocrat. She was an elder sister...
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    Frances Dora Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne (née Smith; 29 July 1832 – 5 February 1922) was a British noblewoman. She was the paternal...
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    His paternal grandparents were Thomas Lyon-Bowes, 11th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, and his first wife, Mary Elizabeth Louisa Rodney Carpenter. His...
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    son of Claude Bowes-Lyon, 13th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, and the former Frances Smith. His younger brother, Patrick Bowes-Lyon, was a tennis player...
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    Mary Mason Lyon (/ˈlaɪ.ən/; February 28, 1797 – March 5, 1849) was an American pioneer in women's education. She established the Wheaton Female Seminary...
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  • Bowes-Lyon (b. 1970), married in 2000 to Frances Margaret Anne Harris, they have two children. David Victor Bowes-Lyon (b. 1973), married in 2002 to Jennifer...
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    to the other chromosomes and contains many genes. This being said, Mary Frances Lyon discovered that there is X-chromosome inactivation during reproduction...
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  • Thomas Lyon (1741–1796). MP for Aberdeen Burghs. Married Mary Wren. Their daughter Charlotte Lyon (died 1871) married Revd Henry George Liddell (died 1872)...
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  • neurodegenerative disease by inducing changes in protein structure. 1997 Mary Frances Lyon  United Kingdom for her hypothesis concerning the random inactivation...
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    Cecilia Nina Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne GCVO (née Cavendish-Bentinck; 11 September 1862 – 23 June 1938) was the mother of Queen Elizabeth...
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    Bowes-Lyon (born 17 June 1932); married Caroline Mary Viktoria Pike (born 27 September 1940) on 11 April 1966 During World War II, Bowes-Lyon was a member...
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    Catholic faith upon marrying him. They had one daughter, Lady Caroline Frances Bowes-Lyon (8 December 1959 – 1 January 1960), who died less than one month after...
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  • Harrison Ruffin Tyler (category College of William & Mary alumni)
    through Lyon's friendship with Franklin D. Roosevelt, Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor funded Tyler's education at the College of William & Mary with a $5...
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    Jane Frances de Chantal, VHM (born Jeanne-Françoise Frémyot, Baroness of Chantal; 28 January 1572 – 13 December 1641) was a French Catholic noble widow...
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  • Prize annually. Mount Holyoke was founded in 1837 by Mary Lyon as Mount Holyoke Female Seminary. Lyon developed her ideas on how to educate women when she...
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  • Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher Parrish Friede (July 3, 1908 – June 22, 1992), writing as M.F.K. Fisher, was an American food writer. She was a founder of...
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    Flint Willard and Mary Thompson Hill Willard in Churchville, near Rochester, New York. She was named after English novelist Frances (Fanny) Burney, the...
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    Frances Perkins (born Fannie Coralie Perkins; April 10, 1880 – May 14, 1965) was an American workers-rights advocate who served as the fourth United States...
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    Frances Xavier Cabrini MSC (Italian: Francesca Saverio Cabrini (birth name), July 15, 1850 – December 22, 1917), also known as Mother Cabrini, was an...
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    In 1817, Lyon married Nancy Vaughn (1796–1828). In 1829, he married Frances (Baker) Jones (1802–1866). With her first husband, Frances Lyon was the mother...
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  • and Mary Constance Wyndham) and Frances Lucy Tennant, daughter of a Scottish chemical merchant. Laura, as she was called, had 3 siblings, Ann, Mary Rose...
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  • Anthony Kelly Egon Hynek Kodicek Jack Lewis, Baron Lewis of Newnham Mary Frances Lyon Peter Bryan Conrad Matthews George Francis Mitchell Hélio Gelli Pereira...
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  • University Nicole Marthe Le Douarin (2004) Philippa Marrack (2005) Mary Frances Lyon (2006) Gail R. Martin, Beatrice Mintz, Elizabeth Robertson (2007)...
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    1830 – 1831), buried 29 April 1831. Frances Dora Smith (29 July 1832 – 5 February 1922) m. 1853 Claude Bowes-Lyon, 13th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne...
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  • grandson of Claude Bowes-Lyon, 13th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne and Frances Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne. He was thus a first cousin...
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  • in 1967, Frances left John to be with Peter Shand Kydd, an heir to a wallpaper fortune in Australia, whom she had met the year before. Frances lived with...
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    Princess Anne of Denmark (née Anne Ferelith Fenella Bowes-Lyon; 4 December 1917 – 26 September 1980), formerly styled as Viscountess Anson, was a member...
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    1939. Timothy Patrick Bowes-Lyon, 16th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne (18 March 1918 – 13 September 1972) married Mary Bridget Brennan (1923 – 8 September...
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    Belva Lockwood Juliette Gordon Low Clare Boothe Luce Shannon W. Lucid Mary Lyon Mary Mahoney Nicole Malachowski Wilma Mankiller Philippa Marrack Barbara...
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