Category
page 1British women botanists
Beatrix Potter
British children's writer and illustrator (1866–1943)

Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz was Queen of Great Britain and Ireland as the wife of King George III from their marriage on 8 September 1761 until her death in 1818. The Acts of Union 1800 unified Great Britain and Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. As George's wife, she was also Electress of Hanover until becoming Queen of Hanover on 12 October 1814. Charlotte was Britain's longest-serving queen consort, serving for 57 years and 70 days.
Marie Stopes
British birth control campaigner and paleontologist (1880-1958)

Anna Atkins
English botanist and photographer (1799-1871)
Agnes Arber
British botanist (1879-1960)
Mary Elizabeth Barber
British naturalist, botanist, entomologist, ornithologist, botanical and scientific collector, scientific illustrator, painter and poet (1818-1899)
Anna Worsley Russell
English botanist (1807-1876)
Irene Manton
British botanist (1904-1988)
Annie Lorrain Smith
British mycologist and lichenologist (1854-1937)
Lilian Suzette Gibbs
British botanist, botanical collector, scientific illustrator, explorer and mountaineer (1870-1925)
Helen Porter
British botanist (1899-1987)
Priscilla Susan Bury
British botanist and artist (1799–1872)

Jane Wells Webb Loudon
English science fiction writer and botanist (1807–1858)
Helen Gwynne-Vaughan
British mycologist and botanist (1879-1967)
Kathleen Mary Drew-Baker
British phycologist (1901–1957)
Sarah Darwin
British botanist
Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort
English noblewoman, gardener and botanist (1630-1715)
Ethel Sargant
British botanist (1863-1918)
Dorothea Pertz
English botanist (1859-1939)

Gulielma Lister
English mycologist, botanist and scientific illustrator (1860-1949)

Stella Ross-Craig
British botanist, botanical collector and botanical illustrator (1906-2006)

Sarah Sophia Banks
English collector of coins and ephemera (1744-1818)
Ottoline Leyser
British botanist
Margaret Jane Benson
English botanist and mycologist (1859-1936)
Amelia Griffiths
British phycologist (1768–1858)
Cathie Martin
British botanist
Anne Monson
English botanist and collector of plants and insects (1726-1776)
Gabrielle Howard
British botanist (1876-1930)

Susyn M. Andrews
British botanist
Clara Ethelinda Larter
English botanist (1847-1936)
Winifred Elsie Brenchley
British botanist and agricultural scientist (1883–1953)
Margaretta Riley
British botanist (1804-1899)
Mary Mendum
English botanist, botanical and scientific illustrator (1945-2004)
Dorothy Popenoe
English botanist and archaeologist (1899-1932)
Elsie May Burrows
British botanist and university teacher (1913–1986)

Elizabeth Jill Cowley
British botanist
Frances Acton
British botanist, archaeologist and artist (1794-1881)
Ellen Wright Blackwell
British writer, botanist, photographer (1864-1952)
Shirley Sherwood
British writer and botanist
Elke Mackenzie
British polar explorer and botanist (1911–1990)
Ruth Kiew
Malaysian-British botanist (1946–2025)
Florence Woolward
British botanical illustrator and botanist (1854-1936)
Joyce Lambert
botanist (1916-2005)
Sarah Ann Drake
British botanical illustrator (1803-1857)
Marjorie Elizabeth Jane Chandler
English palaeobotanist (1897-1983)
Pippa Greenwood
British botanist
Vera Scarth-Johnson
British-Australian botanist and botanical illustrator (1912–1999)
Marion Delf-Smith
British botanist (1883-1980)
Ethel Thomas
English botanist (1876-1944)
Emily Collins
British botanist (1858-1945)
Diane Mary Bridson
British botanist, botanical collector and scientific illustrator
Anthea Phillipps
British botanist based in Sabah, Malaysia
Winifred Mary Page
British botanist and mycologist (1887–1965)
Elaine Bullard
British botanist (1915-2011)
Iris Sheila Collenette
British botanist (1927–2017)

Gertrude Bacon
British writer, aeronaut and botanist (1874-1949)
Louisa Collings
British lichenologist (1818-1887)
Rose Bracher
British botanist (1894-1941)
Sheila Spenser Hooper
botanist (b. 1925)
Phoebe Lankester
British botanist known for popular science writing (1825–1900)