British botanist, author and illustrator (1868–1950)
Emilia Frances Noel (9 February 1868[ 1] – 19 March 1950) was a British botanist , author, and illustrator.[ 2]
Born in Kensington ,[ 3] she was the youngest daughter of Hon. Henry Lewis Noel and granddaughter of Charles Noel, 1st Earl of Gainsborough .[ 4] She was educated at Somerville College, Oxford .[ 5] She traveled internationally, and is noted for her writings about and collection of Kashmir plants; her journals are now in the National Archives .[ 6] [ 7] [ 8] [ 9] She was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London in 1905.[ 10]
^ 1939 England and Wales Register
^ "Noel, Emilia Frances (−1950)" . Global Plants . JSTOR. Retrieved 16 August 2018 .
^ England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837–1915
^ Mosley, Charles , ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (107 ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. p. 1507. ISBN 978-0-9711966-2-9 .
^ Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie ; Joy Dorothy Harvey (2000). The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: L-Z . Routledge . pp. 948 –949. ISBN 978-0415920407 .
^ Stewart, Ralph Randles (1982). History and Exploration of Plants in Pakistan and Adjoining Areas . PanGraphics. p. 134.
^ Burkill, Isaac Henry (1965). Chapters on the History of Botany in India . Botanical Survey of India. p. 177.
^ Ogilvie, Marilyn; Harvey, Joy (2003). The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: Pioneering Lives From Ancient Times to the Mid-20th Century . Routeledge. pp. 948–949. ISBN 9781135963439 . Retrieved 16 August 2018 . Collected and described plants on her many foreign travels.
^ Ray, Desmond (1994). Dictionary Of British And Irish Botanists And Horticulturists Including plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers . CRC Press. p. 520. ISBN 9780850668438 . Retrieved 16 August 2018 .
^ "Societies - LINNEAN General Meeting" . The Gardeners' Chronicle: A Weekly Illustrated Journal of Horticulture and Allied Subjects . London. Gardener's Chronicle. 11 February 1905. p. 93. Retrieved 16 August 2018 .