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G. Clarke Nuttall (c.1868–4 May 1929)[1][2] was a British botanist, journalist and author.
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Career
[edit]She is believed to have been one of the first women in Britain to take a B.Sc. degree in botany, although it is not known at which university she studied.
Although the author of many books and papers on natural history, she is most well known for writing the text accompanying H. Essenhigh Corke's photographs in their Wild Flowers as they Grew (1911-1914).
Personal Life
[edit]Born Annie Gertrude Clarke in about 1868 in Leicester, England,[1] she was the eldest child of Leicestershire surgeon, Julius St. Thomas Clarke, and his wife Hannah.[5]
In about 1893 she married a fellow Leicester native, Charles Dalley Nuttall.Cite error: The opening <ref> tag is malformed or has a bad name (see the help page). Charles was a general practitioner. There were no recorded children from their marriage.[1]
On the night of the 1911 census Gertrude and Charles were living in St. Albans, Hertfordshire with Gertrude's younger brother, Sydney, and one domestic servant.[1] Charles was then an inmate at the King Edward VII Sanatorium in Midhurst.[6]
After Charles died, she remained a widow until her own death some 16 years later.[5]
During the First World War, she had gone to France with the British Red Cross. Her task was responsibility for the recreation huts, where she also gave lectures. She was mentioned in dispatches for her work.[5]
She died after a long illness on 4 May 1929 at Ivy House, Holywell Hill in St. Albans aged 61.[5][7] Her effects were estimated at £12,163 1s 11d.[2]
Bibliography
[edit]Articles
- A Botanical Discovery and Its Possibilities, (ar) Longman’s Magazine Dec 1902
- Plant Growing in Coloured Light (ar) Pearson’s Magazine Jun 1900
- The Flight of the Seeds (ar) Pearson’s Magazine Oct 1901
- The Story of the Banana, and Its Future Possibilities (ar) Longman’s Magazine Feb 1902
- The Unfolding of the Leaves (ar) Pearson’s Magazine Apr 1902
- Mysterious Beings (ar) Pearson’s Magazine Jan 1903
- The Birth of Great Trees (ar) Pearson’s Magazine May 1903
- Time Reckoning by Flowers (ar) Pearson’s Magazine Jul 1904
- Camouflage in War (cl) Chums Jul 26 1919, etc.
- Camouflage in Nature (cl) Chums Aug 16 1919, etc.
- Camouflage in Games and Sport (cl) Chums Aug 30 1919
- The Passing of the Flowers (pi) Pearson’s Magazine Sep 1921
Books
- Beautiful flowering shrubs, trees and heather (c1927)
- French prisoners in England : a side-light on the wars of Napoleon (1906)
- Trees and how they grow (1913)
- Superstitions of the land (1927)
- Wild flowers as they grow (1911-14), with HEC
- Guide to Leicester and neighbourhood (1905)
- A Guide to Leicester and district (1907)
- Ye Flower-Lover's Booke: An anthology (1911)
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d "Annie Gertrude Nuttall", United States census, 1911; St. Albans, Hertfordshire; page 140,, enumeration district 01. Retrieved on 18 July 2016.
- ^ a b "England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations, 1858-1966". Ancestry. Ancestry.com. p. 533. Retrieved 18 July 2016.
- ^ Olgilvie, Marilyn; Harvey, Joy; Rossiter, Margaret, eds. (2003). "Nuttall, Gertrude (Clarke) (1868-1929)". The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: Pioneering Lives From Ancient Times to the Mid-20th Century. Vol. 2. New York: Routledge. pp. 953–54. ISBN 9780415920407.
- ^ a b Desmond, Ray, ed. (1994). "Nuttall, Mrs. Gertrude Clarke (1868-1929)". Dictionary of British and Irish Botantists and Horticulturalists, including Plant Collectors, Flower Painters and Garden Designers. CRC Press. p. 523. ISBN 9780850668438. Cite error: The named reference "DictBrIrBots" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
- ^ a b c d "Obituaries: Mrs. Gertrude Clarke Nuttall, B.Sc" (PDF). Journal of Botany (67): 183. 1929.
- ^ "Charles Dalley Nuttall", United States census, 1911; Easebourne, Sussex; page 14,, enumeration district 14. Retrieved on 18 July 2016.
- ^ "Death of Authoress". Hull Daily Mail. Hull. 4 May 1929.
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