Emilia Frances Noel Explained

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]

External links

• Web site: The Emilia Noel Collection . Royal Geographical Society Archives . The National Archives . 16 August 2018.

Notes and References

1. 1939 England and Wales Register
2. Noel, Emilia Frances (−1950) . Global Plants . JSTOR . 16 August 2018.
3. England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837–1915
4. Book: Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood. Burke's Peerage & Gentry . Mosley, Charles . Charles Mosley (genealogist) . 107 . 2003 . 1507 . Burke . 978-0-9711966-2-9. Burke's Peerage .
5. Book: The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: L-Z. 948–949. Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie. Joy Dorothy Harvey. Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie. Joy Harvey. Routledge. 2000. 978-0415920407. registration.
6. Book: Stewart . Ralph Randles . History and Exploration of Plants in Pakistan and Adjoining Areas . 1982 . PanGraphics . 134.
7. Book: Burkill . Isaac Henry. Chapters on the History of Botany in India . 1965 . Botanical Survey of India . 177 .
8. Book: Ogilvie . Marilyn . Harvey . Joy . The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: Pioneering Lives From Ancient Times to the Mid-20th Century . 2003 . Routeledge . 9781135963439 . 948–949 . 16 August 2018 . Collected and described plants on her many foreign travels..
9. Book: Ray . Desmond . Dictionary Of British And Irish Botanists And Horticulturists Including plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers . 1994 . CRC Press . 9780850668438 . 520 . 16 August 2018.
10. News: Societies - LINNEAN General Meeting . 16 August 2018 . The Gardeners' Chronicle: A Weekly Illustrated Journal of Horticulture and Allied Subjects . Gardener's Chronicle . 11 February 1905 . London . 93.