Mary Louisa Armitt

Mary Louisa Armitt (31 July 1851 – 24 September 1911) was an English writer, teacher, music critic, ornithologist and philanthropist. Quotes The visitor to Oxford goes to see, amongst the wonders of that historic but by no means old-looking city, the college established there by Walter de Merton in 1274. It boast several attractions. Besides the chapel, pre-eminent for the beauty of its Decorated English architecture, there is the founder's treasure-house, with its ashlar roof, the ancient ironwork of the hall door, and the wondrous old library in the Mob Quadrangle, where Duns Scotus succeeded in that dangerous and hazardous feat of raising the devil. Antony à Wood The Quarterly Musical Review 2 7 129–139 August 1886 https://books.google.com/books?id=9-kqAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA129 (quote from p. 129) The limestone cliff of Humphrey Head, surrounded by sandbanks and shallows, is not so favoured by breeding birds, but the jackdaw and dove—doubtless the stock-dove—are busy about its niches in nesting time. And in autumn and winter the mud-flats of the estuaries and the sands of the bays are busy with bird life. Besides troops of gulls and oyster-catchers, and curlews, and redshanks, and dunlins, there are far-coming whimbrels, and sanderlings, and knots, as well as more rarely seen species. There are geese on the flows, and sea-duck, scaup, common scoter, wigeon and others on the tide. Collingwood, W. G. The Lake Counties 1902 Chapter. The Birds by Mary L. Armitt, in Part II. Natural History and Sport in the Lake Counties https://archive.org/details/lakecounties00collgoog/page/n244/mode/2up 199–216 (quote from p. 207) The churchyard, even more than the church itself, had its secular and popular uses, which came down from ancient time. The fairs, the markets, the sports and the wrestlings ... which took place within its enclosing walls, and of which we obtain faint intimations, were but the survival of the festivals sanctioned by the early church, when the wake, or fair of the patron saint was kept. This again, with its bull-baiting, its rude sports and its temporary stalls, may be linked on to the earlier rites of heathen times, when beasts were brought to the Temple for sacrifice, and when the people built booths about it, in which to hold a three days' feast. The annual or biennial fair, and even the Sunday market, were quite usual in the churchyard, before the boroughs obtained a special privilege for them. https://books.google.com/books?id=Ah9-IH2w9RIC&pg=PA35 35 The Church of Grasmere: A History 1912 External links Category:1851 births Category:1911 deaths Category:Music critics Category:Ornithologists Category:Philanthropists from England Category:Women authors from England Category:Women scientists from England