Bible Orr (1 results)

Title printed in red & black. Handsomely bound in contemporary full dark brown crushed morocco, heavily decorated in gilt & blind, spine with compartments in gilt; somewhat rubbed, but a very nice copy. The two pages of 'Family Register' have been filled out with 35 lines of manuscript recording the births, baptisms, and marriage records of the Close, Acworth, Orr, and Thackeray families. It begins with the birth of Mary Beatrice Close on 19th July, 1860, the year this volume was published, and ends with the birth of Amanda Jane Thackeray on 1st March 1959. The manuscript includes the records of Ellen Joy, Harriet Gertrude, Mary Acworth, Lucy Elizabeth, Andrew William, Herbert Holmes and Charles Fitzwilliam James Orr, the children of Major Andrew Orr and Lucy Erskine Acworth. Their father died in 1870 leaving Lucy to care for a family of seven children. Most notably, Mary Acworth Orr, later Evershed, 1867-1949, became an eminent British astronomer and Dante scholar. Lucy Elizabeth Orr married Henry St John Thackeray, 1869-1930, a Biblical scholar at King's College, Cambridge, son of Francis St John Thackeray and nephew to the author William Makepeace Thackeray. Their child, Andrew David Thackeray, 1910-1978, was an astronomer serving as director of the Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford, for 23 years. Passed down in the family, the bible comes from the library of Ruth Caroline Thackeray, born in 1947.