Hester Adrian, Baroness Adrian
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Hester Agnes Adrian, Baroness Adrian DBE (née Pinsent; 16 September 1899-20 May 1966) was a British mental health worker.
[edit] 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 later won a Nobel Prize and was President of the Royal Society. 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 (1927-?), who married Peter Watson Campbell.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ Peter Townend, ed., Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 105th edition (London, U.K.: Burke's Peerage Ltd, 1970), page 27.
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