Lady Margaret Lindsay Murray
Anybody know anything more about Lady Margaret, did she have brothers an sisters, did she and Sir William have children?
Lewis D McCann
Milton Keynes,UK
SIR WILLIAM HUGGINSwas born 7 2 1824 in Stoke Newington, and died 12 5 1910 in London.He married MARGARET LINDSAY MURRAY 1875.She was born 1848 in Monkstown,Dublin, and died 24 3 1915 in 8 More Gdn,Chelsea.
Notes for SIR WILLIAM HUGGINS:
Astronomer Royal, 1900-1905 Sir William Huggins, O.M., K.C.B.
Notes for MARGARET LINDSAY MURRAY:
Lady Huggins was truly a Renaissance women, being accomplished in music, painting, writing, an expert on antique furniture, and astronomy. Her interest in astronomy began early on when her grandfather taught her the constellations. She began to construct homemade instruments and finally arranged to meet William Huggins, a spectroscopist, through the telescope maker Howard Grubb of Dublin. She married Huggins in 1875 and they became close collaborators. Together they produced some of the earliest spectra of astronomical objects, most notably the Orion nebula.
More About MARGARET LINDSAY MURRAY:
Census: 1881, 90 Upper Tulse Hill
More About WILLIAM HUGGINS and MARGARET MURRAY:
Marriage: 1875