Mary Acworth Evershed

Mary Acworth Evershed
FRAS
Born
Mary Acworth Orr

(1867-01-01)1 January 1867
Plymouth Hoe, Devon, England
Died25 October 1949(1949-10-25) (aged 82)
Ewhurst, Surrey, England
Other namesM.A. Orr
Known forAstronomy and scholarship of Dante
SpouseJohn Evershed[1]

Mary Acworth Evershed FRAS (née Orr; 1 January 1867 – 25 October 1949) was a British astronomer and scholar. Her work on Dante Alighieri was written under the pen name M.A. Orr.

  1. ^ Stratton, F. J. M. (1957). "John Evershed 1864–1956". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 3: 40–51. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1957.0004. JSTOR 769351.