Winifred Boys-Smith Plate V Textbook of elementary botany

Winifred Lily Boys-Smith (7 November 1865 – 1 January 1939) was an English science artist and lecturer, university professor, school principal. She was born in Corsham,

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on 7 November 1865. Boys-Smith studied at Girton College, Cambridge, between 1891 and 1895. She took the full honours course for

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; however, she was only given a certificate as women were not granted degrees at the time. She taught at

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from 1896 to 1906 and the University of Otago from 1911. One nephew,

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, was Master of

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and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge from 1963 to 1965. Another nephew was Humphry Boys Smith DSO and bar DSC RNR, "one of the most successful Merchant Navy officers serving in the RNR during the Second World War." When ''Flowering Plants'' was published in 1903, a review in

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called the illustrations "unusually good". Boys-Smith features as one of the Royal Society Te Apārangi's "

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" project in 2017, celebrating the contribution of women to knowledge in New Zealand.

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1865 births 1939 deaths English artists Schoolteachers from Wiltshire Academic staff of the University of Otago People from Corsham Botanical illustrators 19th-century English painters 20th-century English painters Cheltenham Ladies' College faculty Alumni of Girton College, Cambridge British emigrants to New Zealand {{England-artist-stub