Arber [née Robertson], Agnes (1879–1960), botanist, was born at 26 Regent's Park Road, London, on 23 February 1879, the eldest child of Henry Robert Robertson (1839–1921), an artist, and Agnes Lucy Turner, a descendant of Robert Chamberlain (d. 1798), ceramicist, of ...
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Arber [née Robertson], Agnes (1879–1960), botanist
Kathryn Packer
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Church, Arthur Harry (1865–1937), botanist
D. J. Mabberley
Church, Arthur Harry (1865–1937), botanist, was born on 28 March 1865 at 32 Oxford Place, Plymouth, the eldest son of Henry Church (b. 1830/31), a saddler, and his wife, Mary Head, née Brown (c.1824–1887). He was educated at Ashburton grammar school...
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Clapham, (Arthur) Roy (1904–1990), botanist
Donald Pigott
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Clapham, (Arthur) Roy (1904–1990), botanist, was born in Norwich on 24 May 1904, the eldest of three children and only son of George Clapham, schoolmaster, and his wife, Dora Margaret, née Harvey. His childhood was spent in Norwich, where he attended the City of Norwich School...
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Corner, (Edred) John Henry (1906–1996), botanist
D. J. Mabberley
Corner, (Edred) John Henry (1906–1996), botanist, was born on 12 January 1906 at 37 Harley Street, London, the son of Edred Moss Corner (d. 1950), surgeon, and his wife, Henrietta, née Henderson (d. 1966). He was educated at Arnold House, St John's Wood...
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Gilmour, John Scott Lennox (1906–1986), botanist and horticulturist
S. Max Walters
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Gilmour, John Scott Lennox (1906–1986), botanist and horticulturist, was born on 28 September 1906 at 1 St John's Wood Road, London, the youngest in the family of one daughter and three sons of Thomas Lennox Gilmour, Edinburgh lawyer, and his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of ...
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Gregory, Frederick Gugenheim (1893–1961)
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Frederick Gugenheim Gregory (1893–1961) by Elliott & Fry, 1958 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Gregory, Frederick Gugenheim [formerly Fritz Gugenheim] (1893–1961), plant physiologist
H. K. Porter
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Gregory, Frederick Gugenheim [formerly Fritz Gugenheim] (1893–1961), plant physiologist, was born at 236 Tufnell Park Road, Upper Holloway, London, on 22 December 1893. Fritz was the fourth of the eight children of Carl Gugenheim, a manufacturing jeweller, and Laura Maison. His father was a Jewish expatriate from ...
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Jenkinson, David Stewart (1928–2011), soil scientist
David S. Powlson
Jenkinson, David Stewart (1928–2011), soil scientist, was born on 25 February 1928 in Hollywood Hospital, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, USA, the eldest son of Hugh McLoughlan Jenkinson, businessman and farmer, and his wife, Isabel Frances, née Glass. His parents had moved from Northern Ireland...
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Vaughan, Dame Helen Charlotte Isabella Gwynne- [née Helen Charlotte Isabella Fraser] (1879–1967), mycologist and women's activist
Mary R. S. Creese
Vaughan, Dame Helen Charlotte Isabella Gwynne- [née Helen Charlotte Isabella Fraser] (1879–1967), mycologist and women's activist, was born on 21 January 1879, at Chapel Street, Westminster, London, the elder daughter of Captain Arthur H. Fraser (1852–1884), Scots Guards, and his wife, Lucy Jane (1855/6–1939)...
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Vaughan, Dame Helen Charlotte Isabella Gwynne- (1879–1967)
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Dame Helen Charlotte Isabella Gwynne- Vaughan (1879–1967) by Lafayette, 1929 © National Portrait Gallery, London
