Abstract
The Presidency of the British Association was not the only major event of Lockyer’s life in 1903. A few months before the British Association meeting, he married Thomazine Mary Brodhurst, fifty at the time and sixteen years his junior. For his new wife, too, it was a second marriage; she was the widow of a surgeon. Lockyer had met her at South Kensington before her first marriage. Whilst away observing the 1882 solar eclipse in Egypt, he had written to her exultantly saying that the foreign observers present at the eclipse had been astounded by the accuracy of his predictions concerning the solar spectrum.1 It seems possible that Lockyer, with a growing family on his hands, was already at that time looking around for a second wife. In the event Miss Browne, as she then was, married elsewhere, and he was forced to wait.
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