Ruth Coralhouse

General

• Died 9 May, in her Ascendancy Point flat, at the age of 108
• Husband is renowned reality researcher Horatio Flynn
• Other family: son, October Flynn, and his three children, Julius, Camilla, and Marcus

• Former Academy Senior Fellow of the Social Sciences department
• Pioneered early work on Earth anthropology based on some of the earliest comprehensive Earth communications
• Retired from that position in 250
• With husand, developed the first compelling model of convergent development, now widely called CF Theory
  • The pair were jointly awarded the Ikonnikov Prize for their work in 234 and again in 239

• Heiress to a considerable fortune left to her by her father, Antony Coralhouse
• Left a clause in her will for a PCL45 million bequest jointly to the Academy and the Centre for Reality Research
• The will specified that the money must be used to develop a method for transporting physical matter between Perplex City and Earth, with the aim that her ashes be transported to Greece and scattered over the Mediterranean Ocean on Earth
• Her will also specified that her ashes should be kept in a replica Grecian urn in a Greek-style temple on the Great Lawn

• Her PCL45 million bequest has been denied by the Academy due to stipulations requiring specific Academy research
• The Academy is willing, however, to send her ashes to Earth, should such a thing become possible in the future
• Until that time, her ashes are being kept in an elaborate urn on the Academy grounds

References

• Perplex City Sentinel
  • article, 11-MAY-05 "Coralhouse Dies at 108" (link)
  • article, 17-MAY-05 "Coralhouse Bequest Shocks Academy" (link)
  • article, 28-JUN-05 Coralhouse Denied" (link)

• Quirky Acuity, Violet Kiteway's Blog
  • 12 May entry

• Michiko Clark's Talk Sport interview (link)