Audrey T. Carpenter

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Audrey T. Carpenter is a British biographer, after an earlier career as a scientific researcher, technical abstractor and librarian.

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Audrey Taylor Smith was born in Dorking on 7 September 1935 and grew up mainly in Banstead.[ citation needed ] She attended Sutton High School from 1942-1953. While in Lower IVr she contributed an article about a visit to Cheddar Gorge in 1948. [1]

In 1953 Smith was awarded a State Scholarship, and gained a place at the Imperial College of Science and Technology (now Imperial College London), to read chemistry; she graduated in 1956. She then studied for a PhD at St Mary's Hospital Medical School in Professor Albert Neuberger's Department of Chemical Pathology, under the supervision of J J Scott. [2] [3] She was awarded a PhD from the University of London in 1959.

In September 1961 Audrey and her husband John Carpenter sailed on the Queen Mary [4] to the United States to undertake postdoctoral research. They were first at the New York-Presbyterian Hospital, part of Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons at W 168th St, New York. Audrey was in David Sprinson's [5] department. The following summer Carpenter and her husband drove across the United States to the west coast and then back east to Detroit, where she undertook research in the Department of Chemistry at Wayne State University, in T T Tchen's group. [6]

Carpenter returned to the UK in 1963 and in the following year she and her husband moved to Sandwich, Kent. In 1978 the family moved to Marly-le-Roi and later Fourqueux, 20 km west of Paris. Their two daughters attended the Lycée International de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, while John worked in Paris. Audrey had worked from home as a technical abstractor while in Sandwich and was a librarian at the Lycée. [7]

In 1984 the family moved to a village near Loughborough. John had been appointed Technical Director at Riker Laboratories, later 3M Health Care, in Loughborough. Audrey decided to pursue a part-time degree in English at Loughborough University. She was awarded a BA degree in 1990 and went on to study for a PhD under the supervision of Professor Bill Overton. [8] She was awarded her second PhD in 2010, on John Theophilus Desaguliers: her thesis title was "Ingenious Philosopher: John Theophilus Desaguliers (1683-1744), popularizer of Newtonianism and promoter of freemasonry". [9] [10] The thesis was the basis of a biography of Desaguliers, published in 2011.

Carpenter spent the next few years further researching 18th-century people of note, including her 5x great-grandmother, opera singer Giovanna Sestini [11] and Sestini's grandson Joachim Hayward Stocqueler. [12] Several of Carpenter's works have received favourable reviews. [13] [14] [15] She also wrote Sestini's entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography .

Her biography of Desaguliers has been listed by the Museum of Freemasonry in its "Learn about Freemasonry: 12 books to expand your knowledge". [16]

Personal life

Audrey met John G D Carpenter, who was also studying chemistry in the same year at Imperial. [17] They were married at the register office, Epsom in August 1958. [18] They have two daughters, born in Canterbury in 1966 [19] and 1967. [20] Audrey and John now live in Leicestershire.

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References

  1. ↑ Smith, Audrey (1948). "A Visit to Cheddar". Sutton High School Magazine. 85: 21–22.
  2. ↑ Carpenter, Audrey T; Scott, J J (1959). "The relationship of opsopyrroledicarboxylic acid to the biosynthesis of porphyrin". Biochem J. 71 (2): 325–333. doi:10.1042/bj0710325. PMC   1196793 . PMID   13628573.
  3. ↑ Carpenter, A T; Scott, J J (2 September 1961). "The inhibition of porphobilinogen deaminase by isoporphobilinogen". Biochim Biophys Acta. 52. Elsevier: 195–8. doi:10.1016/0006-3002(61)90918-0. PMID   13876765.
  4. ↑ New York State, Passenger and Crew Lists, 1917-1967
  5. ↑ "Deaths Sprinson, David". The New York Times. 6 May 2007.
  6. ↑ Constantopoulos, George; Carpenter, Audrey; Satoh, Paul S; Tchen, T T (1 May 1966). "Formation of Isocaproaldehyde in the Enzymatic Cleavage of Cholesterol Side Chain by Adrenal Extract". Biochemistry. 5 (5). ACS Publications: 1650–1652. doi:10.1021/bi00869a029. PMID   5961284.
  7. ↑ "Audrey T. Carpenter". Bloomsbury. Retrieved 9 September 2024.
  8. ↑ Hastings, Rob. "The best poet you've never heard of? The tragic mission to rescue the reputation of Lord Hervey". inews. Retrieved 11 September 2024.
  9. ↑ Carpenter, Audrey T. (1 January 2010). "Ingenious Philosopher: John Theophilus Desaguliers (1683-1744), popularizer of Newtonianism and promoter of freemasonry [Catalogue record and abstract]". Loughborough University Repository. Retrieved 9 September 2024.
  10. ↑ "Alumna Audrey enjoys writing success". Loughborough University. 13 June 2024. Retrieved 9 September 2024.
  11. ↑ "Alumna Audrey enjoys writing success". Loughborough University Alumni. 13 June 2024. Retrieved 14 August 2024.
  12. ↑ "Audrey T. Carpenter, A Resourceful Rogue [review]" (PDF). British Association for Victorian Studies Newsletter. 19 (1): 22. July 2019. Retrieved 9 September 2024.
  13. ↑ Wigelsworth, Jeffrey R. (2013). "The freemason who explained Newton: Audrey T. Carpenter: John Theophilus Desaguliers: A natural philosopher, engineer and freemason in Newtonian England". Metascience. 22 (1): 181-184. doi:10.1007/s11016-012-9694-x . Retrieved 9 September 2024.
  14. ↑ Pink, Andrew (15 October 2013). "Carpenter, Audrey, John Theophilus Desaguliers: A Natural Philosopher, Engineer and Freemason in Newtonian England". Journal for Research into Freemasonry and Fraternalism. 3 (1). doi:10.1558/jrff.v3i1.130.
  15. ↑ "Holiday Hints: In the beginning [recommended books]". Scottish Rite: 26. November–December 2013. Retrieved 9 September 2024.
  16. ↑ "Learn about freemasonry: 12 books to expand your knowledge". Museum of Freemasonry. Retrieved 9 September 2024.
  17. ↑ "Scho;arship Awards". Hastings and St Leonards Observer. 19 December 1953. p. 8. John G D Carpenter, 126 Queen's Road, Hastings Grammar School, at present training for BSc degree in chemistry at Imperial College of Science and Technology, London
  18. ↑ England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005 for Audrey T Smith
  19. ↑ England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1916-2007 for Caroline Louise Carpenter
  20. ↑ England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1916-2007 for Catherine Elizabeth Carpenter
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