Beatrix Havergal

Beatrix Havergal
Havergal in 1943
Born
Grace Beatrix Helen Havergal

(1901-07-07)7 July 1901
Roydon, South Norfolk
Died8 April 1980(1980-04-08) (aged 78)
Woolton Hill, Hampshire
Occupationhorticulturalist

Beatrix Helen Havergal MBE (born Grace Beatrix Helen Havergal, 1901-1980) was an English horticulturist.

In 1932 Havergal founded Waterperry School of Horticulture, a residential horticultural college for women. When she retired as principal in 1971, Waterperry School of Horticulture closed, though there remain gardens and a nursery there.[1]

  1. ^ 'Waterperry Gardens, Oxfordshire', in Julia Brittain, Plants, People, and Places, 2006.