Mary Read She accepted the King's pardon c. 1718–1719, then took a commission to privateer, but joined the crew in mutiny. In 1720 she joined pirate John "Calico Jack" Rackham and his companion, Anne Bonny, who both believed her to be a man. On 22 August 1720, the three stole an armed sloop named "William" from port in Nassau. Scholars are uncertain how female pirates like Read and Bonny concealed their sex in a male-dominated environment. Some scholars, however, have theorized that the wearing of breeches by female pirates may have been either a method of hiding their identity or simply as
Mary Grace Quackenbos Sherlock Holmes" of "Timeless", Sarah Sokolovic portrays Grace. Mary Grace Quackenbos Mary Grace Quackenbos Humiston (née Winterton) (1871–1948) was the first female Special Assistant United States Attorney. She was a graduate of the Law School of New York University and was a leader in exposing peonage in the American South. She was also known for a short time as "Mrs. Sherlock Holmes", starting with her work solving the cold case of Ruth Cruger who disappeared in New York in 1917. Quackenbos Humiston was born Mary Grace Winterton. Her father was Adoniram Judson Winterton, a well-to-do merchant and prominent in the