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steepholm ([personal profile] steepholm) wrote2008-01-24 07:03 am

More embarrassing ancestors

The shame! Now it seems that my great-great grandfather diddled Alfred Russel Wallace out of sixpence back in 1867 - just when he was getting over being gazumped by Darwin in The Origin of Species.

[identity profile] steepholm.livejournal.com 2008-01-24 11:47 am (UTC)(link)
Ooh, nice icon! Sorry about your grandfather, though. I suppose "These things happen" ought to be the insurer's motto, but it's probably not so easy when things happen to you.