Sibille Ford

Sibille Ormston Ford (1874 – 1932) was an English botanist and zoologist.  

She was born in Leeds, the daughter of a silk mill manager, in 1874. She was the niece of reformer Isabella Ormston Ford.[1]

Ford gained a first class pass in botany and zoology at Newnham College, Cambridge in 1899. She received a Bathurst studentship to continue her studies in 1900–2, and taught as an assistant in animal morphology at the Balfour Biological Laboratory for Women in 1901–2.[1][2] She received a BA from Trinity College, Dublin in 1906[1] (where Cambridge alumni would travel to receive their degrees while Cambridge was not awarding them to women).

She published several solo and joint papers on plant anatomy, including a review of the Araucariaceae with Albert Seward which was published by the Royal Society in 1906.[3]  

Ford was a Quaker, and assisted with the Friends Relief Mission in Bar-le-Duc, Verdun in 1918–20.[1]

She died in Grange-Over-Sands, Cumbria in 1932.[1]

The standard author abbreviation S.O.Ford is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[4]
  1. ^ a b c d e "Sibille Ford". www.newbotaniststwo.uk. Retrieved 2024-09-06.
  2. ^ Richmond, Marsha L. (1997). ""A Lab of One's Own": The Balfour Biological Laboratory for Women at Cambridge University, 1884-1914". Isis. 88 (3): 422–455. doi:10.1086/383769. ISSN 0021-1753. JSTOR 236151. PMID 9450359.
  3. ^ Jones, C. (2009-10-15). Femininity, Mathematics and Science, 1880–1914. Springer. p. 179. ISBN 978-0-230-24665-2.
  4. ^ International Plant Names Index.  S.O.Ford.