Enid Mary Cotton

Enid Mary Cotton (née Jesson) (1 May 1889 Malvern, Victoria – 19 April 1956 Farnham Common) was an Australian-born English botanist who married Arthur Disbrowe Cotton in 1913/1915, raising a son and daughter.[1]

She was the daughter of a mining engineer John Charles Jesson and Lilian née Dawson. On the family's return to England she worked at Kew[2] and contributed text to Curtis's Botanical Magazine as well as Elinor Frances Vallentin's Illustrations of Flowering Plants of the Falkland Islands (1921).[3]

  1. ^ "AIM25 text-only browsing: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: Cotton, Arthur Disbrowe (1879-1962)". aim25.com. Archived from the original on 2020-03-25. Retrieved 2020-03-25.
  2. ^ "biographies". www.maberly.name. Archived from the original on 2022-12-06. Retrieved 2020-03-25.
  3. ^ Desmond, Ray (1994-02-25). Dictionary Of British And Irish Botanists And Horticulturists Including plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-85066-843-8. Archived from the original on 2024-05-31. Retrieved 2020-10-02.