Inventors (1553 pages found in this category)


Marion Walker

Glaswegian woman active from 1597–1614 in highlighting the miscarriages of justice perpetrated during a Scottish witch-hunt.

Marion Wallace Dunlop

First suffragette to go on hunger strike, on 5 July 1909.

Mark Sheridan

English music-hall comedian and singer, whose recording popularised the song "I do like to be beside the Seaside".

Marool

A malevolent Shetland monster in the form of a large fish.

Married Women’s Property Act 1870

Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom that allowed married women to be the legal owners of money they earned and to inherit property.

Marshall Stevens

Property developer whose work with Daniel Adamson and others led to the construction of the Manchester Ship Canal, completed in 1894.

Martha Bradley

18th-century English cook, author of The British Housewife.

Martin’s Close

Ghost story by the English medievalist and author M. R. James, first published in 1911. It centres on the trial of the local squire about 200 years earlier, accused of murdering a young woman who several witnesses claimed to have seen after her death.

Mary Bateman

Poisoner and thief whose most audacious hoax was The Prophet Hen of Leeds.

Mary Bolles

17th-century Yorkshire woman uniquely created a baronetess in her own right.