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Dorothy Banks
Dorothy Banks (''née'' Alford, 1865 – 1937) was an English naturalist and Conchology, shell-collector who was one of the originators of Hergest Croft Garden, Kington. She was born in 1865 to clergyman Bradley Hurt Alford and his wife Caroline, ''née'' Lyall, and raised in London. Her older sister was the classicist Margaret Alford. Like Margaret, Dorothy attended Girton College, Cambridge, where she gained a first in the Natural Sciences tripos in 1885–8. Her Director of Studies was conchologist Alfred Hands Cooke, and she worked and corresponded with William Bateson, John Read le Brockton Tomlin and Thomas McKenny Hughes. She received no degree, and in 1887 collected signatures for a petition for Cambridge to allow full university membership to women so that they could gain degrees. In 1893, she married her course-mate, the banker and plant photographer William Hartland Banks. They had a son, Richard Alford (Dick) Banks (b. 1902), and three daughters. Hergest Croft In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hergest Croft - Geograph
Hergest (pronounced with a hard ''g'') may refer to: * Lower Hergest, a hamlet in Herefordshire, England * Upper Hergest, a hamlet in Herefordshire, England See also * Hergest Ridge, a hill on the border between England and Wales * Hergest Ridge (album), ''Hergest Ridge'' (album), a 1974 album by Mike Oldfield * Red Book of Hergest, a medieval Welsh manuscript once kept at Hergest Court * White Book of Hergest, a medieval Welsh manuscript, now lost {{geodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
