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Mary Katherine Andrews (1852–1914) was a woman of her time, a Victorian then Edwardian lady interested in science. Raised in an academic household in Belfast, she did not have the opportunity to attend university, because women were not accepted when she was young. This did not discourage her in developing her scientific interests, and she became an accomplished amateur geologist. The quality of her work led to the honorific position of Secretary of the Geological Section of the Belfast Naturalists’ Field Club (BNFC). She was attracted to several fields of geology, but focussed her attention and researched in aspects of geomorphology and petrology. Part of her work in the Geological Section involved discerning the direction of ice flow, which she and others based on extensive collecting and documentation of glacial erratics across. She was a curator of geological specimens for the BNFC, photographer of landscapes and specimens, researcher, defender of geological heritage, a good communicator, and an international collector. Her legacy is not restricted to the rock samples she collected and the thin sections she prepared, but she also collected fossils, wrote papers, took many geological photographs that she deposited with the British Association for the Advancement of Science, and most tellingly, the enthusiasm she transmitted to young females.