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Gertrude was born at Cambridge, to John Mackenzie Bacon (19 June 1846 – 26 December 1904) and his first wife, Gertrude Myers. Gertrude became her father"s scientific collaborator in both astronomy and aeronautics.
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Gertrude was born at Cambridge, to John Mackenzie Bacon (19 June 1846 – 26 December 1904) and his first wife, Gertrude Myers. Gertrude became her father"s scientific collaborator in both astronomy and aeronautics.
Gertrude popularized aeronautics through her writing, and promoted both commercial and popular flying as fields for women. The family moved in 1876 to Cold Ash, Berkshire, near Newbury. She accompanied her father on expeditions to film total solar eclipses in Vadso, Lapland (1896), Buxar, India (December 1897-1898), and Wadesborough, North Carolina (May 1900).
When their first expedition was unsuccessful, due to cloudy weather, they went home and planned another.
Their second and third attempts were successful. fascinated Gertrude. She was the first woman in England to make a proper balloon ascent, with her father, in 1898.
A more hair-raising balloon flight occurred on 15 November 1899, when John Mackenzie Bacon and Gertrude Bacon ascended with Stanley Spencer to observe the Leonid meteor shower from above the cloud layer. Ten hours later, they landed near Neath, South Wales, a narrow escape from drifting out over the Atlantic.
Gertrude was undeterred.
In August 1904, she accompanied Stanley Spencer again, this time in an airship of his designing. As a result, she became the first woman to fly in an airship. She is also credited as the first Englishwoman to fly in an airplane.
Roger Sommer took her up in a Farman biplane on 29 August 1909, during the First International aviation gathering at Rheims, France.
She also flew with Douglas Graham Gilmour in a "Big Bat" monoplane in 1910. Gertrude was the first passenger in a seaplane.
She accompanied pilot Herbert Stanley Adams in flights on Windermere in mid-1912. Adams had made the first successful complete flight from water and safely back again, in Britain, on 25 November 1911.
Through her books, and through public speeches, Bacon popularized aeronautics.
On 23 July 1923, Gertrude Bacon and botanist and illustrator Lady Joanna Charlotte Davy (1865-1955) made the first discovery of Carex microglochin or Bristle Sedge in Great Britain. In 1929, Gertrude Bacon married a fellow botanist and chemist, Thomas Jackson Foggitt (2 March 1858 - 30 October 1934).
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She was an original member of the British Astronomical Association, and a member of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.