Lilian Martin-Leake

Lilian Martin-Leake (17 March 1867, Paddington, England – 1962, Bideford, England) was a British astronomer, science teacher and scientific illustrator, and a member of British Astronomical Association (BAA).[1] She joined an expedition organized by the Association to observe the total eclipse of May 28, 1900. Along with four other members she was stationed on the roof of the Hotel de la Régence in Algiers to examine the structure of the corona through a 3” (75mm) aperture telescope.[2] Lilian joined the Association on 31 May 1893 at the proposal of Alice Everett and seconded by A S D Russell.[3]

Lilian Martin-Leake
Lilian Martin-Leake at her telescope on the roof of the Hotel de la Régence, Algiers.
Born(1867-03-17)17 March 1867
Paddington, London, England
Died1962 (aged 95)
Bideford, Devon, England
Occupation(s)Science teacher, Astronomer and scientific illustrator

Martin-Leake made a drawing from a telescopic view of prominences and chromosphere during the eclipse of May 28, 1900.[4][5] Her drawing of the chromosphere and the corona showed red spicules in the chromosphere that were considered as mountains before.[6]

Life

Lilian Martin-Leake was born on 17 March 1867[7] in the family of William Martin-Leake - civil engineer and coffee planter and Louisa Harriet (Tennant) Martin-Leake. She had seven siblings - five sisters and two brothers. She matriculated to Girton College Cambridge in 1886 and graduated from there in 1890. Annie Russell and Alice Everett, her proposers for the BAA, attended the same college, graduating a year earlier.

From 1896 to 1900 she was the Science Mistress at Winchester High School. From 1914 to 1915 and again from 1919 to 1928 she was an occasional inspector for the Board of Education.[8]

References
  1. "Notices of the Association". Journal of the British Astronomical Association. 11: 47–48. November 1900. Bibcode:1900JBAA...11...47. – via 1900JBAA...11...47.
  2. British Astronomical Association; Maunder, E. Walter (Edward Walter) (1901). The total solar eclipse, 1900; report of the expeditions organized by the British astronomical association to observe the total solar eclipse of 1900, May 28. University of California Libraries. London, "Knowledge" office.
  3. "1893JBAA....3..286. Page 286". articles.adsabs.harvard.edu. Retrieved 16 May 2020.
  4. "Solar Eclipse Newsletter, Volume 8, Issue 1" (PDF). NASA. January 2003. Retrieved 21 December 2019.
  5. Knowledge. v. 1-40; Nov. 1881-Dec. 1917. Vol. 23. London: Wyman [etc.]
  6. Littmann, Mark; Espenak, Fred (14 April 2017). Totality — The Great American Eclipses of 2017 and 2024. Oxford University Press. p. 91. ISBN 978-0-19-251489-9.
  7. "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975". Retrieved 21 December 2019.
  8. Teachers Registration Council - Registers 1914-1948, register number 1301


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