Birth reg Sept quar. 1852 Bridgwater, SOM (5C 415) Browne, Thomazine Mary.20 With her sister Annie, she gave 40 acres of Leigh land on Salcombe Hill in 1912 to build what is now the Sir Norman Lockyer Observatory -- now incorporated into the University of Exeter.81
See http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext01/mt6bg11.txt for a ref to Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) lunching with “his old friends Sir Norman & Lady Lockyer” during a trip to England.
NLO News: July 1994
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My Post-War Years on Salcombe Hill
by Donald Barber, (Director Emeritus)
Sadly, Lady Lockyer died in September 1943 and was buried in the churchyard at Salcombe Regis. She had been actively associated with the NLO since its foundation and had been its Assistant Honorary Treasurer for thirty years. She bequeathed the Lockyer House, in which she had been living since Sir Norman's death in 1920, together with an estate of around £16 000 to the Norman Lockyer Observatory Corporation. The house was sold and is now the Brownlands Hotel. My memories of her are particularly happy. When I was a new member of the staff in 1936 she would invite me to her Thursday afternoon soirees at the Lockyer House to meet her guests, who included many notable scientists and East Devon residents. Among them were Sir Ambrose Fleming, the inventor of the thermionic valve, and S G Brown, FRS, the inventor of the gyrocompass and Brown headphones, which were widely used with BBC crystal receivers in the early days of wireless reception from 2LO. 82
See Norman Lcokyer Observatory website for: Thanks are due to Helen Yeo, for her work in surveying the site for its flora and fauna. Her report is most comprehensive and she has set out a clear plan for conservation of the natural resources of the site. We have a small piece of heath that has not been touched in any significant way for more than a hundred years. Sadly. the attempts to beautify the site by, Lady Lockyer, such as the planting of rhododendrons norm seen as an alien Deed, have to be undone. We have applied for a grant from Shell to help with the project to develop the site for nature, but at present do not know if it will be selected for assistance. Whatever the financial outcome of that grant application, the work will be done by volunteers. 198
Keats-Shelley Journal Volume 19 (1970) Articles:
* John Hamilton Reynolds, James Rice, and Benjamin Bailey in the Leigh Browne-Lockyer Collection [11-40] Clayton Hudnall199
From NLO News: July 1994
Comet to hit Jupiter in July;
        spectacular fireworks display or damp squib?
..“The Planet Jupiter rises in mid morning at 14.48 a.m. BST on 16 July and sets in the western sky at 00.47 a.m. The planet is therefore visible only for a brief while after sunset, which is at 21.15 p.m.. By the time it is dark it will be low in the western sky. As members wilI know, there is difficulty in seeing objects in the western sky as the neighbours trees (planted by the late Lady Lockyer as a memorial to her husband) shields us from viewing Exeter's light pollution. “82