Alice Hutchison
1845–98
Scottish-born friend of the Darwin family. Her stepfather, Richard Shaen, was a Unitarian minister in Royston, Hertfordshire, and brother to William Shaen. CD knew William Shaen through Shaen’s role between 1865 and 1869 in the committee opposed to the brutal martial law regime in Jamaica.
Sources
BMD (Death index)
Census returns of England and Wales 1851 (The National Archives: Public Record Office HO107/1783/330/21), 1871 (RG10/1361/80/11)
Correspondence vol. 23, letter to Herbert Spencer, 13 November 1875
ODNB s.v. Jamaica Committee
Ruston 1979, p. 21
Bibliography
BMD: General Register Office, England and Wales civil registration indexes. England & Wales birth index, 1837–1983. England and Wales marriage index, 1837–1983. England and Wales death index, 1837–1983. Online database. Provo, Utah: The Generations Network. 2006. www.ancestry.com.
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
Ruston, Alan R. 1979. Unitarianism in Hertfordshire. n.p.
