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Rose Hamilton Moutray Read (1870–1947) was a British author and horticulturist.
Rose Hamilton Moutray Read (1870–1947) was a British author and horticulturist.
Life and family
Rose Hamilton Moutray Read was born in 1870, the eldest child of Edith and John Moutray Read, who was a Lt Colonel of the 4th Cheshire Regiment. Her youngest brother wasAnketell Moutray Read
Captain Anketell Moutray Read Victoria Cross, VC (27 October 1884 – 25 September 1915) was a British Army officer and an England, English recipient of the Victoria Cross (VC), the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of ...
, who earned a Victoria Cross during the First World War.
Work
Under the pseudonym DH Moutray Read, she wrote the popular "Highways and Byways of Hampshire" volume in the Highways & Byways series, in this instance illustrated by portrait painter Arthur Bentley Connor. Moutray Read also wrote a book on the creation of her own garden, with illustrations, plans and photographs. She began gardening with a ten rod allotment inCottenham Park
Cottenham Park is a small district of the London Borough of Merton located to the south of Copse Hill, north of Raynes Park, in West Wimbledon, London.Willey, Russ. ''Chambers London Gazetter'', p 118-19. It was named after Charles Pepys, 1st Ear ...
, Wimbledon, and soon realised that she could not manage without a garden. She purchased an old house and garden of about three quarters of an acre near Wadhurst
Wadhurst is a market town in East Sussex, England. It is the centre of the civil parish of Wadhurst, which also includes the hamlets of Cousley Wood and Tidebrook. Wadhurst is twinned with Aubers in France.
Situation
Wadhurst is situated on ...
in Sussex
Sussex (), from the Old English (), is a historic county in South East England that was formerly an independent medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom. It is bounded to the west by Hampshire, north by Surrey, northeast by Kent, south by the English ...
, which was grassland when Moutray Read purchased it.
Moutray Read was a Fellow of the Royal Horticultural Society, and edited the ''Gardener's Year Book'' for 1930. Moutray Read was also a member of the Folklore Society, presenting a number of papers, and reviewing books for the society's journal ''Folklore''.
Publications
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