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Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort (baptised 16 December 1630 – 7 January 1715) also known by her other married name of Mary Seymour, Lady Beauchamp and her maiden name Mary Capell, was an English noblewoman, gardener and botanist. Among her introductions to British gardening are Pelargonium zonale, Ageratum species and Passiflora caerulea.
- baptised 16 December 1630, Hadham Parva
- English
- 7 January 1715 (aged 84), Chelsea
- St Michael and All Angels Church, Badminton
12 de mar. de 2019 · Prominent botanist and cataloger of gardens, William Sherard (1659-1728), was hired by an aristocrat to tutor her grandson in botany for “hee loving my diversion so well.” This was Mary Somerset, the first Duchess of Beaufort (1630-1715), an accomplished gardener and botanist in her own right.
Victoria Constance Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort, CStJ (formerly Lady Mary Cambridge, née Princess Mary of Teck; 12 June 1897 – 23 June 1987) was a British peeress and sportswoman. The elder daughter of the 1st Marquess of Cambridge and Lady Margaret Grosvenor, she was the niece of Queen Mary.
- St Michael and All Angels Church, Badminton, Gloucestershire
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5 de mar. de 2019 · During this Women’s History Month, JSTOR Daily features female scientists who transgressed boundaries to work in the natural sciences. In 1694, Lady Mary Somerset, first Duchess of Beaufort in England, corresponded with Sir Robert Southwell, President of the Royal Society, on botanical matters. The duchess was known for keeping ...
The Duchess of Botany. Under the supervision of Professor Simon Hiscock and Dr Richard Coulton (QMUL), India Cole is undertaking an AHRC-funded Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) project examining Mary Somerset, the first Duchess of Beaufort (1630-1715). Somerset pursued botany at her gardens at Beaufort House in London, and at Badminton ...
Mary Somerset was one of the few female “armchair botanists” Schiebinger cites, and this essay aims to reposition Somerset as an active agent of colonial botany, not just a bystander or less significant practitioner. Rather than the work of an isolated few, colonial botany was inherently the result of networks of knowledge and practice.
The project will examine the legacies of — and connections between — two important but under-researched seventeenth-century botanists: Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort (1630-1715) and Jacob Bobart the younger (1641-1719).
