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Category: William Augustus Brevoort Coolidge (1850-1926)

A woman before her time

Meta Brevoort (1825-1876) an intrepid Victorian mountaineer and the first female climber to wear trousers

Natalie Mayhew Elisabeth Neville Brevoort (1822-1875), Henry Brevoort Jnr (1782-1848), Laura Elizabeth Carson (1799-1845), Marguerite Claudia 'Meta' Brevoort (1825-1876), William Augustus Brevoort Coolidge (1850-1926) March 22, 2024June 17, 2026 13 Minutes

The wandering years

General Map of the Alps annotated to show the location of Cannes, Genoa, Mt Cenis, Geneva and Thun

Lil Coolidge (1857-1906): Oct 1864 to Jan 1875, a circuitous route from Cannes to Oxford

Natalie Mayhew Elisabeth Neville Brevoort (1822-1875), Elizabeth Brevoort 'Lil' Coolidge (1857-1906), Marguerite Claudia 'Meta' Brevoort (1825-1876), William Augustus Brevoort Coolidge (1850-1926) July 30, 2022June 17, 2026 7 Minutes

Funny Where Life Took Them
Some of the surnames on this site — click one to find stories behind it

Bailey Baker Banfield Banfield aka Wackrill Barrett Baynes Booth Bovill Bowes-Lyon Brevoort Bristow Brock Carson Chaldecott Collingwood Conway-Gordon Coolidge Cooper Cotton Courtauld Daley Dibben Dowman Down Earle Finch Fitzgerald Gordon Hall Harvey Hill Irving Kirby Krug Lane? Levens Mayhew Mayo Napier Obee Payne Poulton Rose Saumarez Sheldrake Todd Twohey Wackrill Whetten

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