Rosamund Flora Shove

Rosamund Flora Shove
FLS
Bornc. 1878
Died17 October 1954 (aged 76)
Richmond, Greater London, England
EducationGirton College, Cambridge
OccupationBotanist
EmployerMaria Grey Training College
OrganizationLinnean Society of London

Rosamund Flora Shove FLS (c. 1878 – 17 October 1954) was an English botanist. She was a fellow of the Linnean Society of London, taught at Maria Grey Training College and published a paper on the stem of the angiopteris evecta fern.

Biography

Shove was born c. 1878.[1] She was educated at Girton College, Cambridge from 1889 to 1896, before women were permitted to be granted degrees by the institution.[1]

In 1900, Shove published a paper on the stem of the angiopteris evecta fern in the Annals of Science.[1][2]

From 1921 to 1938, Shove was a lecturer in Biology at the Maria Grey Training College in Isleworth, Middlesex.[3]

From 1940 to 1953, Shove edited the journal of the School Nature Study Union.[1][3] She was elected as a fellow of the Linnean Society of London,[4][5] serving on the Society's council from 1943 to 1947.[1]

Shove died on 17 October 1954 in Richmond, Greater London, England, aged 76.[5] Her collection of plants was accepted into the collection of Kew Gardens.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Ogilvie, Marilyn; Harvey, Joy (16 December 2003). The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: Pioneering Lives From Ancient Times to the Mid-20th Century. Routledge. p. 1189. ISBN 978-1-135-96343-9.
  2. ^ Seward, A. C. (17 March 2011). Fossil Plants: A Text-Book for Students of Botany and Geology. Cambridge University Press. p. 602. ISBN 978-1-108-01596-7.
  3. ^ a b Desmond, Ray (25 February 1994). Dictionary Of British And Irish Botanists And Horticulturists Including plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers. CRC Press. p. 625. ISBN 978-0-85066-843-8.
  4. ^ Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London. Linnean Society of London. 1956. p. 2.
  5. ^ a b Munro, Madeline (November 1954). "Miss Rosamund F. Shove". Nature. 174 (4439): 995–996. doi:10.1038/174995b0. ISSN 1476-4687.