Frank, See http://tinyurl.com/2fpvfah for a source for Higgins' article "The Classification of Sundials" - done while she was Assistant Curator at the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford. I believe it was based on her thesis - a copy of which I have somewhere in my files although I can't locate it at the moment. The article was published in 1953 - I'm not aware of her ever publishing anything else on the subject.
Fred Sawyer On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Frank King <frank.k...@cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote: > Dear All, > > A biographer has asked me whether I can supply > any details of someone he is writing about who > seems to have had some interest in sundials. > > The bare facts are: > > Name: Kathleen Wright (nee Higgins) > > Born: Not known but about 1925 > > Died: 1 January 1999 > > Oxford University: 1944 to 1947 > > She wrote some reports on a couple of churches > where she particularly drew attention to their > scratch dials: Coln St Aldwyns and Bibury. > > So far, the biographer has identified only one > person who was acquainted with Kathleen and he > said, unprompted, that she had a research interest > in old sundials. > > I am pretty dismal at remembering names and do > not know whether this person is well known to > diallists (with better memories than mine) or > is quite unknown. > > It should be easy to find out the date of birth > but I haven't managed even that :-( > > It should be easy to find out her Oxford College > but this is proving challenging too. There weren't > many women's colleges in those days so I may have > to search each one in turn. > > If anyone has any leads please let me know. > > Frank King > Cambridge, UK > > --------------------------------------------------- > https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial > >
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