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Emilia Frances Noel

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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]

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  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.
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