Hester Agnes Adrian, Baroness Adrian, DBE

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Hester Agnes Adrian (Pincent)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Birmingham, UK
Death: May 20, 1966 (66)
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Hume Chancellor Pincent and Ellen Francis Pincent
Wife of Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian
Mother of Private; Richard Hume Adrian, 2nd Baron Adrian and Private
Sister of David Hume Pincent and Richard Parker Pincent

Occupation: Made DBE, penal reformer
Managed by: Carlos F. Bunge
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About Hester Agnes Adrian, Baroness Adrian, DBE

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hester_Adrian,_Baroness_Adrian

Hester Agnes Adrian, Baroness Adrian, DBE (née Pinsent; 16 September 1899 – 20 May 1966) was a British mental health worker. In 1965, the year before her death, she was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) for her contributions.

Biography

Hester Agnes Pinsent was born in 1899, the only daughter of Hume Chancellor Pinsent (a relative of the philosopher David Hume) and his wife Dame Ellen Pinsent (née Parker).

She married Edgar Douglas Adrian on 14 June 1923. He won the Nobel Prize in Physiology in 1932, and he was President of the Royal Society from 1950-1955. They had three children, a daughter and mixed twins:

Anne Pinsent Adrian, who married the physiologist Richard Darwin Keynes

Richard Hume Adrian, 2nd Baron Adrian (1927–1995)

Jennet Adrian (born 1927), who married Peter Watson Campbell

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Hester Agnes Adrian, Baroness Adrian, DBE's Timeline

1899
August 16, 1899
Birmingham, UK
1927
October 16, 1927
1966
May 20, 1966
Age 66
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK