Family
In 1855 he married Mary Everest (niece of George Everest), who later wrote several educational works on her husband's principles.
The Booles had five daughters:
- Mary Ellen, (1856–1908) who married the mathematician and author Charles Howard Hinton and had four children: George (1882–1943), Eric (*1884), William (1886–1909) and Sebastian (1887–1923) inventor of the Jungle gym. Sebastian had three children:
- William H. Hinton (1919-2004) visited China in the 1930s and 40s and wrote an influential account of the Communist land reform.
- Joan Hinton (1921–2010) worked for the Manhattan Project and lived in China from 1948 until her death on 8 June 2010; she was married to Sid Engst.
- Jean Hinton (married name Rosner) (1917–2002) peace activist.
- Margaret, (1858 – ?) married Edward Ingram Taylor an artist.
- Their elder son Geoffrey Ingram Taylor became a mathematician and a Fellow of the Royal Society.
- Their younger son Julian was a professor of surgery.
- Alicia (1860–1940), who made important contributions to four-dimensional geometry
- Lucy Everest (1862–1905), who was first female professor of chemistry in England
- Ethel Lilian (1864–1960), who married the Polish scientist and revolutionary Wilfrid Michael Voynich and was the author of the novel The Gadfly.
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