Anne Phillips

Anne Phillips (1803–1862) was an English geologist. She is most notable for discovering a fragment of conglomerate that helped clarify the history of the Malvern Hills. She also worked as an assistant to her brother John Phillips who was also a geologist. Biography Anne Phillips was born in Midford, Somerset, in 1803 along with her two other siblings, John (1800-1874) and Jenkin (b. 1807). After the birth of her brother in 1800, the family moved to Midford and they are believed to have stayed at a property, Tucking Mill House, owned by her uncle William Smith. Smith was a geologist known for authoring the first geological map of England and developing the basis for the science of stratigraphy. The family moved to Steeple Aston, Oxfordshire after Anne was born in 1803. Then after four years, the youngest child of the family, Jenkin, was born in 1807. The family subsequently moved to Coventry (then in Warwickshire). Although some information has been published through letters from her brother John, much of Anne's upbringing and education remains a mystery. Anne was a supporter of the feminist movement and wanted her work to be seen by everyone regardless of her gender. Her father, the elder John Phillips, died in Coventry in January 1808, and her mother Elizabeth died in July after the family had moved to her hometown of Churchill, Somerset. Following the death of her mother, Anne's maternal uncles took care of the orphans. Daniel Smith looked after Jenkin in the village of Churchill, near Chipping Norton in Oxfordshire, while William Smith took John and Anne to Broadfield Farm, which was owned by John Smith.