Mary Andrews

Mary K. Andrews (1851/2–1914) was an Irish geologist, notable as one of the first women to be active in this subject area.

Life Born in Belfast on 5 October 1851 or 1852, Mary Katherine Andrews was one of six children born to Jane Hardie and the chemist Thomas Andrews. Her first geology paper was The Early History of Magnetism from 1876, published in Nature. A friend and collaborator of Sydney Mary Thompson, Andrews photographed features of special interest for the British Association, and curated the BNFC's local geological specimens. She represented Queen's College, Belfast and the BNFC at the 1907 centenary celebrations of the Geological Society.

Andrews lived with her older sister, Elizabeth (1843-1929), at 12 College Gardens, Belfast. 'Denudation at Cultra, County Down' , Irish Naturalist 2 (1893), pp. 16–18; 47-49; Belfast Field Club Reports 3 (1893), pp. 529–32 'Dykes in Antrim and Down', Irish Naturalist 3 (1894), pp. 93–6 'Erosion at Newcastle', Irish Naturalist, 10, 114 'Notes on Moel Tryfaen' , Belfast Field Club Reports 4 (1901), pp. 205–10