Lady Charlotte Murray

Lady
Charlotte Murray
Born (1754-08-02)2 August 1754
Dunkeld, Scotland
Died 4 April 1808(1808-04-04) (aged 53)
Bath, Somerset, England
Resting place Bath Abbey
Occupation Botany
Known for Geranium pratense
Notable work The British Garden

Lady Charlotte Murray (2 August 1754 – 4 April 1808) was a Scottish botanist and author. She was the eldest child of John Murray, 3rd Duke of Atholl, and Charlotte Murray, Duchess of Atholl.

She is best known for her two-volume work The British Garden, which ran to two or three editions in her lifetime, the second (and possibly the first)[1] being in 1799, and the third in 1805 or 1808,[2] and another in 1880.[3]

In 1793, Lady Charlotte discovered a double variety of Geranium pratense which she sent to Lady Banks.[4]

She died in Bath on 4 April 1808, unmarried.[5]

Works

  • Murray, Charlotte (c. 1799). A Descriptive Catalogue of Hardy Plants, Indigenous Or Cultivated in the Climate of Great Britain; with Their Generic and Specific Characters, Latin and English Names, Native Country, and Time of Flowering.

References

  1. ↑ Shteir, Ann B. (1996). Cultivating women, cultivating science: Flora's daughters and botany in England, 1760-1860. Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 67. ISBN 978-0801861758.
  2. ↑ Lady Charlotte Murray The British Garden: A Descriptive Catalogue of Hardy Plants, Indigenous Or cultivated in the climate of Great Britain Vol.1 (1808) , p. 48, at Google Books
  3. ↑ George, Samantha (2007). Botany, Sexuality and Women's Writing, 1760-1830: From Modest Shoot to Forward Plant. Manchester University Press. p. 100. ISBN 978-0719088452.
  4. ↑ Sowerby, James (1797). English Botany. 6.
  5. ↑ Ewan, Elizabeth L.; Innes, Sue; Reynolds, Sian; et al., eds. (2007). The Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women. Edinburgh University Press. p. 277. ISBN 978-0748632930.

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