Which famous people have you outlived?

Winifred Brenchley

British botanist

Died when: 70 years 78 days (842 months)
Star Sign: Leo

 

Winifred Brenchley

Winifred Elsie Brenchley OBE, DSc (Lond), FLS, FRES (1883–1953), an agricultural botanist who worked at the Rothamsted Research Station.Along with Katherine Warington, she demonstrated the role of boron as an essential micronutrient for plants.

She was the first woman in the UK to break into the male-dominated sphere of agricultural science.She has been described as "perhaps Britain's leading authority on weeds in the early twentieth century".


Related People

Frank Kingdon-Ward
British botanist
Henry Nicholas Ridley
British botanist
Frederick Orpen Bower
British botanist
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License