Rose Moutray Read

Rose Hamilton Moutray Read FRHS (1870–1947) was a British author and horticulturist.

Rose Moutray Read's house near Wadhurst

Life and family

Rose Hamilton Moutray Read was born in 1870, the eldest child of Edith and John Moutray Read, who was a Lt Colonel of the 4th Cheshire Regiment. Her youngest brother was Anketell Moutray Read, who earned a Victoria Cross during the First World War.

Work

Under the pseudonym DH Moutray Read, she wrote the popular "Highways and Byways of Hampshire" volume in the MacMillan Highways & Byways series, in this instance illustrated by portrait painter Arthur Bentley Connor.[1] Moutray Read also wrote a book on the creation of her own garden, with illustrations, plans and photographs.[2] She began gardening with a ten rod allotment in Cottenham Park, Wimbledon, and soon realised that she could not manage without a garden. She purchased an old house and garden of about three quarters of an acre near Wadhurst in Sussex, which was grassland when Moutray Read purchased it.[2]

Moutray Read was a Fellow of the Royal Horticultural Society, and edited the Gardener's Year Book for 1930.[3] Moutray Read was also a member of the Folklore Society, presenting a number of papers, and reviewing books for the society's journal Folklore.

References
  1. Read, D. H. Moutray; Connor, Arthur B. (1908). Highways and byways in Hampshire. Harvard University. London, Macmillan and Co.
  2. Read, D. H. Moutray. (1923). One garden; the intimate chronicle of its making. Williams. OCLC 20861920.
  3. Moutray Read, D.H. (1930). The Gardeners Year Book 1930. Osmania University, Digital Library Of India. Philip Allan And Company Limited.
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