Eliza Standerwick Gregory’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro Botanist
A.K.A. Greg.
Was Scientist 
Botanist 
From United Kingdom 
Type Science 
Gender female
Birth 6 December 1840
Death 22 March 1932, Weston-super-Mare, Weston-Super-Mare, North Somerset, Somerset
(aged 91 years)
Star sign Sagittarius

Eliza Standerwick Gregory or Eliza Standerwick Barnes (6 December 1840 – 22 March 1932) was a British botanist.

Life

Eliza Standerwick Barnes was born in Thraxton in Northamptonshire in 1840. She was always interested in botany but she did not became a published botanist until she was older at the age of 64. Her special knowledge was of violets and she published a monograph in 1912. Her botanical abbreviation is from her married name and is “Greg.” She published several times in the Journal of Botany.

Gregory is credited with the discovery of the Cornish fumitory, Fumaria occidentalis. She reported that she found it on the edge of a wood at Lelant.

Gregory died in Weston-super-Mare. Her herbarium is in the Natural History Museum. It includes samples from southern England and from Northern Ireland.

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