How to Pronounce Mary Acworth Evershed
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Jan 01, 1867 Plymouth Hoe, England, United Kingdom Died on 25 Oct 1949 (aged 82)
British astronomer, Dante scholar and plant collector
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About Mary Acworth Evershed
- Mary Acworth Evershed (née Orr; 1 January 1867 Plymouth Hoe, Devon – 25 October 1949, Ewhurst, Surrey) was a British astronomer and scholar.
- Her work on Dante Alighieri was written under the pen name M.A.
- Orr.
- Although her second name is increasingly appearing as Ackworth, this is totally incorrect, she always gave it as Acworth, and it appeared as such in both her obituaries, of which the one appearing in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society was written by her nephew A.
- David Thackeray, who presumably would have known.
- The first appearance of this incorrect version appears to have occurred in an article written by Mary Brück.
