1910–1911
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
TINNE, ALEXANDRINE PETRONELLA FRANCINA (18301869), Dutch traveller in Africa, born at the Hague on the i7th of October 1839, was the daughter of Philip F. Tinne', a Dutch merchant who settled in England during the Napoleonic wars, but afterwards returned to his native land, and of his wife, Baroness Van Steengracht-Capellan. Her father died when she was five years old, leaving her the richest heiress in the Netherlands. After travelling in Norway, Italy and the East, and visiting Egypt, when she ascended the Nile t…
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