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Citizenship
  
United Kingdom

Spouse
  
Edgar Adrian (m. 1923)

Died
  
May 20, 1966


Name
  
Hester Baroness

Occupation
  
Mental health worker

Grandchildren
  
Simon Keynes

Full Name
  
Hester Agnes Pinsent

Born
  
September 16, 1899 (
1899-09-16
)
Harborne, Staffordshire

Children
  
Richard Adrian, 2nd Baron Adrian, Jennet Adrian, Anne Adrian

Parents
  
Ellen Pinsent, Hume Chancellor Pinsent

Similar People
  
Edgar Adrian, Simon Keynes, Elizabeth Coffin, Blake Parker, Richard Parker

Hester Agnes Adrian, Baroness Adrian, DBE (née Pinsent; 16 September 1899 – 20 May 1966) was a British mental health worker. In 1965, the year before her death, she was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) for her contributions.

Biography

Hester Agnes Pinsent was born in 1899, the only daughter of Hume Chancellor Pinsent (a relative of the philosopher David Hume) and his wife Dame Ellen Pinsent (née Parker).

She married Edgar Douglas Adrian on 14 June 1923. He won the Nobel Prize in Physiology in 1932, and he was President of the Royal Society from 1950-1955. They had three children, a daughter and mixed twins:

  • Anne Pinsent Adrian, who married the physiologist Richard Darwin Keynes
  • Richard Hume Adrian, 2nd Baron Adrian (1927–1995)
  • Jennet Adrian (born 1927), who married Peter Watson Campbell
  • References

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