Biography

British botanist born in Sussex. She was employed by the School of Botany, Cambridge University and later by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, visiting South Africa (1959) where she collected Poaceae. In 1964 she moved to Dyke in Moray, Scotland. She was an active member of a number of societies including the Moray Field Club, the Botanical Society of the British Isles (BSBI), the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, the Linnean Society of London and the Inverness Botany Group. She specialised in her local flora and was a Vice County Recorder for the BSBI, later publishing the Flora of Moray, Nairn and East Inverness (1978).