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Elizabeth Carne
Elizabeth Catherine Thomas Carne (1817–1873) was a British geologist, conchologist, banker, natural philosopher and mineral collector. Today we would probably place her contributions to science in the realm of human ecology writes a recent author.〔Elizabeth Catherine Thomas Carne: A 19th century Hypatia and her circle, M Hardie-Budden in Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall Bicentennial issue, April 2014〕 She was the fifth daughter of eight children born to Joseph Carne, F.R.S., and his wife Mary Thomas Carne of Glamorgan.Elizabeth was born at Rivière House, in the parish of Phillack,near Hayle Cornwall, United Kingdom, and baptised in Phillack church on 15 May 1820. At Riviere House the cellars were fitted out as laboratories where smelting processes of copper and tin were tested, and minerals and rocks studied for their constituents. To that laboratory had come, before she was born, such as Davies Gilbert, bringing with him the young Humphry Davy to view the workings of a scientific environment.〔History of the Cornish Copper Company, W H Pascoe〕 Born into a wealthy and influential Methodist family of mine owners and merchants, Elizabeth was acutely aware throughout her life of the poverty and deprivation in surrounding mining areas, and the dire need for education and social support for those less fortunate. She read widely, studied mathematics and the classics, and learned several languages. Both her grandfather and her father were staunch and active Methodist class leaders within the Church of England,and the local Methodist book room was lodged in their home. Educated at home in Chapel Street by her parents, Penzance with her sisters, she assisted her father with his extensive mineral collections, and shared his keen interest in geological formations, age and density.〔 〕
==Charitable works==
On her father's death in 1858, having come into an ample fortune, she spent considerable sums in charitable purposes, gave the site for the Elizabeth or St. Paul's schools which were opened at Penzance on 2 Feb. 1876, founded schools at Wesley Rock, Carfury, and Bosullow, three thinly populated districts in the neighbourhood of Penzance, and built a museum in which to exhibit to the public a fine collection of minerals which she had inherited from her parent.〔
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