Angela Burdett-Coutts died on December 30, 1906. She was one of the wealthiest women in England during the 19th century---she inherited massive fortunes from both her parents. With that much money she could do what she wanted, and that was not to marry the myriad men who pursued her. Until that is, she was in her sixties, and then she married her librarian, much younger than she. And cats--yes--she donated gold medals to the winners of the first cat shows in the world.
Onora Sylvia O'Neill (August 23, 1941) is a British thinker. She studied at Oxford and received a doctorate from Harvard. After a noted career, in 1992, she accepted the post of Principal of N ewnham College, Cambridge, and since 2006 she has been Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge. Her 1997 paper, "Environmental Values, Anthroporphism, and Speciesism" contains a timely argument in which Dr. O'Neill, (she prefers that title to the "Baroness" to which her elevation to the peerage allows) points out inadequacies in the use of the term speciesism to argue against according humans more ethical rights than aspects of the non human world. A viewpoint that puts " a person torturing a cat is on a par with a cat torturing a bird," is not one she finds supportable. The link is to a downloadable version of this paper. We have this picture of Onora O'Neill, in 2002, at Newnham College: We meet in the Principal's lodge at Ne
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