Elizabeth Joan Gibbons | |
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| Born | 1902 Essex, England |
| Died | 2 December 1988 |
| Occupation | Botanist |
Elizabeth Joan Gibbons FLS (1902-2 December 1988) was a British botanist. [1]
Elizabeth Joan Gibbons | |
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| Born | 1902 Essex, England |
| Died | 2 December 1988 |
| Occupation | Botanist |
Elizabeth Joan Gibbons FLS (1902-2 December 1988) was a British botanist. [1]
Gibbon was born in Essex but her family moved to Holton le Moor (Lincolnshire)) in 1907. Through her father, Rev. Thomas Gibbons, she attended meetings of the Lincolnshire Naturalists' Union as a child and joined as a member when she was 18. [1] She became the Botanical Secretary of the LNU in 1936, a position she held for more than 50 years, and served as the Union's President for the first time in 1939. [1]
In 1946 she joined the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland and became the vice-county recorder for the two Lincolnshire Vice-counties (VC 53 and 54). She was an avid field-worker and contributed a large number of records to the dataset for Lincolnshire; her contributions were consolidated in her 1975 publication The Flora of Lincolnshire. [1] In her fieldwork she also worked with John H. Chandler. [1] Her collected herbarium was donated to the Natural History Museum. [2]
Gibbons was elected as a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1969. [1] She was also a member of the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology.
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