I didn't know about Charles Howard Hinton. Interesting chap! I just discovered him via researching the etymology and origin of the word tesseract. (Turns out it was coined by Hinton, combining Greek words meaning ‘four’ and ‘ray’.)
He married George Boole's daughter Mary Ellen Boole, with whom he had four children. Unusually, he also married another woman concurrently, as a result of which he spent time in prison for bigamy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Howard_Hinton
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