Catherine Octavia Stevens (1865-1959) was an amateur astronomer who was Director of the British Astronomical Association Meteor Section from 1905 to 1911. [1] Her primary interest was the Sun and she made drawings of sunspots using a 3 inch refractor. [1]
She joined the six month old British Astronomical Association on 27 May 1891. [2] On the 1911 census she gave her occupation as Astronomer, working for the British Astronomical Association and her address was The Plain, Foxcombe Hill, Oxford., [3] a house with an observatory at the top of Boars Hill, Oxford. [1] She lived there from 1910 to 1956. [1] In 1939 she gave her occupation as Meteorologist Astronomer. [4]
Catherine Stevens travelled to see total solar eclipses from Algiers on May 28, 1900, Majorca on August 30, 1905 and Quebec on August 31, 1932. [1] She spent a year in Shetland to study the Aurora Borealis. [1] She travelled to New Zealand and visited the hot springs at Rotorua. [1]
She was born at the Rectory, [3] Bradfield, Berkshire on 23 January 1865, [4] the daughter of Thomas Stevens (1809-1888), Rector of Bradfield and founder of Bradfield College and Susanna Stevens née Marriott (c1824-1866), [5] daughter of Rev Robert Marriott, Rector of Cotesbach, Leicestershire. [6] Catherine Stevens died on 16 June 1959. [1]
Her older sister, Mary Ann Stevens, married John Oldrid Scott, son of the architect George Gilbert Scott. [7]
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Catherine Octavia Stevens (1865-1959) was an amateur astronomer who was Director of the British Astronomical Association Meteor Section from 1905 to 1911. [1] Her primary interest was the Sun and she made drawings of sunspots using a 3 inch refractor. [1]
She joined the six month old British Astronomical Association on 27 May 1891. [2] On the 1911 census she gave her occupation as Astronomer, working for the British Astronomical Association and her address was The Plain, Foxcombe Hill, Oxford., [3] a house with an observatory at the top of Boars Hill, Oxford. [1] She lived there from 1910 to 1956. [1] In 1939 she gave her occupation as Meteorologist Astronomer. [4]
Catherine Stevens travelled to see total solar eclipses from Algiers on May 28, 1900, Majorca on August 30, 1905 and Quebec on August 31, 1932. [1] She spent a year in Shetland to study the Aurora Borealis. [1] She travelled to New Zealand and visited the hot springs at Rotorua. [1]
She was born at the Rectory, [3] Bradfield, Berkshire on 23 January 1865, [4] the daughter of Thomas Stevens (1809-1888), Rector of Bradfield and founder of Bradfield College and Susanna Stevens née Marriott (c1824-1866), [5] daughter of Rev Robert Marriott, Rector of Cotesbach, Leicestershire. [6] Catherine Stevens died on 16 June 1959. [1]
Her older sister, Mary Ann Stevens, married John Oldrid Scott, son of the architect George Gilbert Scott. [7]
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