Emilia Frances Noel

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]

References

1. 1939 England and Wales Register
2. "Noel, Emilia Frances (−1950)". Global Plants. JSTOR. Retrieved 16 August 2018.
3. England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837–1915
4. Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (107 ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. p. 1507. ISBN 978-0-9711966-2-9.
5. Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie; Joy Dorothy Harvey (2000). The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: L-Z. Routledge. pp. 948–949. ISBN 978-0415920407.
6. Stewart, Ralph Randles (1982). History and Exploration of Plants in Pakistan and Adjoining Areas. PanGraphics. p. 134.
7. Burkill, Isaac Henry (1965). Chapters on the History of Botany in India. Botanical Survey of India. p. 177.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. "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.

External links

• "The Emilia Noel Collection". Royal Geographical Society Archives. The National Archives. Retrieved 16 August 2018.