Venetia Burney
Venetia Phair, née Burney (11 July 1918 – 30 April 2009) was the first person to suggest the name Pluto for the (then) planet (now classified as a dwarf planet) discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930. At the time, she was 11 years old and lived in Oxford, England.
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“Mrs. Mirvan says we are not to walk in [St. James’s] Park again next Sunday ... because there is better company in Kensington Gardens; but really, if you had seen how every body was dressed, you would not think that possible.”
—Frances Burney (1752–1840)