Margery Knight (1889–1973) was an algologist, artist and lecturer at the Port Erin Marine Biological Station, University of Liverpool.

Career

Knight was a lecturer in botany at

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from 1912 until she retired in 1954. She was based at the University’s Port Erin Marine Biological Station on the

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. Her research focused on the chromosome numbers and life histories of algae. The book ''Manx algae; an algal survey of the south end of the Isle of Man'' that she published with Mary Parke in 1931 became a standard reference. Knight was the doctoral supervisor of

Mary Parke Mary Winifred Parke, FRS, (23 March 1908 – 17 July 1989) was a British marine botanist and Fellow of the Royal Society (1972) specialising in phycology, the study of algae. Scientific work Mary Parke contributed a great deal to the study of ...

, Elsie May Burrows and

Helen Blackler Margaret Constance Helen Blackler (1902–1981) was a British phycologist, botanical collector and museum curator. Career Blackler was Assistant Keeper of Botany at Liverpool Museum between 1933 to 1945. She also had some temporary teaching po ...

. She was supportive of students, going as far as to provide finance to them from her own personal resources. On her 80th birthday ex-students and colleagues presented her with a tribute of an album of pressed seaweeds and messages.

Publications

Her publications included: *Manx algae; an algal survey of the south end of the Isle of Man by Margery Knight and

, 1931, University of Liverpool Press. *Knight, Margery (1924
XVII. Studies in the Ectocarpaceae. I. The life-history and cytology of ''Pylaiella litoralis''
Kjellm. ''Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh'' 53 (2) 343–360 *Knight, Margery (1930) XV
Studies in the Ectocarpaceae. II: the life-history and cytology of ''Ectocarpus siliculosus'', Dillw.
''Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh'' 56 (2) 307–332 *Margery Knight and Mary Parke (1950) A biological study of ''Fucus vesiculosus'' and ''F. serratus''. ''Journal of the Marine Biological Association'' 29 (2) 439 – 515

Personal life

Her companion was Rose McKenna. In 1936 she was in a car accident that resulted in the loss of one of her legs. In retirement on the Isle of Man Knight painted landscapes in oil, some of which are in the collection of the University of Liverpool. She died in 1973.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Knight, Margery 1889 births 1973 deaths British phycologists Women phycologists 20th-century British women scientists 20th-century British botanists Academics of the University of Liverpool