Ruth Mary Tristram

Ruth Mary Tristram
Ruth Mary Tristram
	Phyteuma sieberi - illustration by Tristram
Born	Ruth Mary Cardew; 25 April 1886
Died	22 October 1950 (aged 64)
Nationality	British
Occupation	Botanist
Spouse	Guy H. Tristram

Ruth Mary Tristram (25 April 1886 – 22 October 1950) was a British amateur botanist.^[1]

Life

Born Ruth Mary Cardew on 25 April 1886, married Major Guy H. Tristram (-1963) in 1919, they had four children. They lived at (the now listed) Cox's Mill, Dallington. Son Launcelot died aged eight, and Tristram attempted to communicate with him by automatic writing. Son Christopher Guy (3 August 1925 – 1943) was killed when the Valaaren was sunk by German submarine U-229^[2] after leaving convoy HX231 (the "Crisis Convoy"). Son David became a noted helleborist.^[3] Ruth Mary Tristram died on 22 October 1950.

Botany

Tristram became an expert on Plantago and was elected a fellow of the Linnean Society on 7 December 1911. She worked with E. G. Barker on Plantago with a plan to publish an account in for Cambridge British Flora. They published several papers together. Tristram was also a member of the Wild Flower Society.

Works

Botanical

With E. G. Baker: papers in Report of the Botanical Society and Journal of Botany

Spiritual

Letters from Lancelot, Dallington, (1931), (aka Lancelot, etc. Letters received in automatic writing by R. M. T.) consisting of automatic writings and other materials relating to her dead son Lancelot, and other matters. (Reprinted 1933, by Dunston.)
Letters from Christopher : Born August 3rd. 1925. Died at sea April 1943 (1944)
- Christopher, etc. [Letters received in automatic writing by R.M.T. "by CHRISTOPHER" (1947)
A Book of Preparation for the Coming Light as R.M.T. (1951)
The Book of Comfort by R. M. Tristram (1957)

Bibliography

J. W. Cardew and J. E. Lously, [Obituary] Ruth Mary Tristram in Watsonia 2 (1951): 139 [1]

References

^ Marilyn Ogilvie; Joy Harvey, eds. (1 January 2000). "Tristram, Ruth Mary (Cardew) (1886-1950)". The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science. Vol. 2. New York and London: Routledge. p. 1302. ISBN 978-0-415-92040-7.
^ Some sources say it was U-632 - Dallington remmbers, p. 30
^ Marriner, Derdriu (21 January 2017). "Earth and Space News: Helleborus 'Walhero' Has Pink Flowers and Sells as 'Walberton's Rosemary'".

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[BDWS-1] Marilyn Ogilvie; Joy Harvey, eds. (1 January 2000). "Tristram, Ruth Mary (Cardew) (1886-1950)". The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science. Vol. 2. New York and London: Routledge. p. 1302. ISBN 978-0-415-92040-7.

[2] Some sources say it was U-632 - Dallington remmbers, p. 30

[3] Marriner, Derdriu (21 January 2017). "Earth and Space News: Helleborus 'Walhero' Has Pink Flowers and Sells as 'Walberton's Rosemary'".

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