The George Eliot School writers of the Victorian era. The George Eliot School The George Eliot School is a mixed secondary school located in Nuneaton in the English county of Warwickshire. The school was established in September 1961, and became a foundation school in September 2009 in partnership with North Warwickshire and Hinckley College. In September 2011 the school converted to academy status and is now part of the Midland Academies Trust. The school is named after George Eliot, the pen name of Mary Ann Evans (1819 – 1880). Evans was novelist, journalist and translator who was born in Nuneaton, and is considered to
Mary Ann Paton Chapelthorpe, in Yorkshire, and it was there that Mary Ann Wood died, on 21 July 1864, aged 62. Paton's father had insisted on her breaking off an engagement with a young medical man named Blood, who went upon the stage for a short time under the name of Davis. She married on 7 May 1824 Lord William Pitt Lennox; they were divorced in the Scottish courts in 1831. In the same year she married Joseph Wood, a tenor singer. She left a son, born in 1838. Attribution Mary Ann Paton Mary Ann Paton (1802–1864) married names including Mary Ann Wood,