Elizabeth Dale

Elizabeth Dale (27 March 1868 – 1936 [https://royalsociety.org/blog/2023/07/curious-characters/]) was a British botanist, paleobotanist, plant pathologist, and author.

She was born on 27 March 1868 in Warrington, Lancashire, the daughter of manufacturing chemist John Gallemore and his wife Clara, ''née'' Heys. She was educated by a governess and then at a private school in Buxton, Derbyshire.

After studying at Owens College, Manchester, she studied the natural science tripos at Girton College, Cambridge in 1890–1891.

She worked as an assistant in botany at the Balfour Biological Laboratory for Women at the University of Cambridge from 1897 to 1899. She held a two-year Pfeiffer research studentship, and then spent fourteen years carrying out research at the Cambridge Botanical Laboratory. Her research and publications were mostly on abnormal plant growth.

She worked as a garden steward at Girton, part time from 1912, and then full-time from 1914–1917. She then retired to the Isle of Wight. Provided by Wikipedia