[identity profile] nineweaving.livejournal.com 2009-05-11 04:30 pm (UTC)(link)
But what a glorious thing she did!

"Mr. Madan gave his granddaughter a five-pound note, and the family added yet another feather to its cap: in 1877, Mr. Madan’s brother Henry, a housemaster at Eton, had successfully proposed that the two dwarf moons of Mars be named Phobos and Deimos, two attendants of the Roman war god, whose names mean fear and terror."

And I note that she went to Downe House, which was once Charles Darwin's home.

May the namer of Vanth live as long and well.

Nine