George Boole - Family

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.