Mary Read Mary Read Mary Read (1685 – 28 April 1721), also known as Mark Read, was an English pirate. She and Anne Bonny are two of the most famed female pirates of all time, and among the few women known to have been convicted of piracy during the early 18th century, at the height of the Golden Age of Piracy. Mary Read was illegitimately born in England in 1685. Her mother had married a sailor and had a son. After her husband disappeared at sea, Mary's mother became pregnant from an affair. Read's mother attempted to hide the pregnancy by going
Grace Mary Linnel Grace Mary Linnel Grace Mary Linnel was a British born educationist and the founder principal of Welham Girls' School. She spent many years in India and was associated with educational institutions such as Government Mahbubia Girls’ School, Hyderabad and Women's College, Hyderabad before joining with Hersille Susie Oliphant of Welham Boys' School to establish Welham Girls' School in 1957. She was honoured by the Government of India in 1971 with Padma Shri, the fourth highest Indian civilian award. Grace Linnel was born in 1900 at Leicester, Leicestershire in the United Kingdom in 1900 to John Stockburn Linnell and Mary Elizabeth