Etheldred Benett was an early English female geologist, the second daughter of Thomas Benett and great-granddaughter of a former Archbishop of Canterbury. Later she resided at Norton House, near Warminster, in Wiltshire, and for more than a quarter of a century devoted herself to collecting and studying the fossils of her native county. Her speciality was in the Middle Cretaceous Upper Greenland in the Vale of Wardour and was well known for her collection of Tisbury Coral.

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  • Etheldred Benett was an early English female geologist, the second daughter of Thomas Benett and great-granddaughter of a former Archbishop of Canterbury. Later she resided at Norton House, near Warminster, in Wiltshire, and for more than a quarter of a century devoted herself to collecting and studying the fossils of her native county. Her speciality was in the Middle Cretaceous Upper Greenland in the Vale of Wardour and was well known for her collection of Tisbury Coral. She wrote and privately published a monograph, A Catalogue of the Organic Remains of the County of Wiltshire (1831). Her fossil collection is currently housed at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.
  • Etheldred Benett ([[1776 - 11 de enero de [[1845) fue una [[geóloga inglesa, segunda hija de [[Thomas Benett y bisnieta del [[arzobispo de Canterbury. Pasó la mayor parte de su vida en cerca de [[Warminster, ([[Wiltshire), donde durante más de un cuarto de siglo, se dedicó a recolectar y estudiar fósiles que obtenía en su condado natal, especialmente del período [[cretácico. También era conocida por su colección de coral Tisbury. Benett escribió y publicó en 1831 una monografía privada bajo el título A Catalogue of the Organic Remains of the County of Wiltshire (literalmente, catálogo de los restos orgánicos del condado de Wiltshire). Su colección de fósiles se encuentra actualmente en la [[Academy of Natural Sciences de [[Filadelfia.
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  • Etheldred Benett was an early English female geologist, the second daughter of Thomas Benett and great-granddaughter of a former Archbishop of Canterbury. Later she resided at Norton House, near Warminster, in Wiltshire, and for more than a quarter of a century devoted herself to collecting and studying the fossils of her native county. Her speciality was in the Middle Cretaceous Upper Greenland in the Vale of Wardour and was well known for her collection of Tisbury Coral.
  • Etheldred Benett ([[1776 - 11 de enero de [[1845) fue una [[geóloga inglesa, segunda hija de [[Thomas Benett y bisnieta del [[arzobispo de Canterbury. Pasó la mayor parte de su vida en cerca de [[Warminster, ([[Wiltshire), donde durante más de un cuarto de siglo, se dedicó a recolectar y estudiar fósiles que obtenía en su condado natal, especialmente del período [[cretácico. También era conocida por su colección de coral Tisbury.
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  • Etheldred Benett
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