Mary Acworth Evershed, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Mary Acworth Evershed

British astronomer, Dante scholar and plant collector

Date of Birth: 01-Jan-1867

Place of Birth: Plymouth Hoe, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 25-Oct-1949

Profession: astronomer, collector, scholar

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

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.