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Joan Margaret Legge
Lady Joan Margaret Legge (1885–1939) was a botanist from England who died on 4 July 1939 while collecting samples at Valley of flowers, India.
Early life[edit]
Joan Margaret Legge was born on 21 February 1885, to William Legge, 6th Earl of Dartmouth and Lady Mary Coke.[1][2] She held the office of Justice of Peace for Staffordshire.[1]
Death[edit]
In 1939 Joan Margaret Legge went to India to study flora of the Valley of Flowers on behalf of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew,[3] and while traversing some rocky slopes to collect flowers, she slipped off and lost her life.[4] Her sister came in search of Joan Margaret Legge and built a tomb inside the Valley of Flowers.[5] She died unmarried at the age of 54.[1]
Commemoration[edit]
A new species of Impatiens, found near the Valley of Flowers, was named as a tribute to Joan Margaret Legge in 2010. It is called Impatiens leggei.[6][7]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Lady Joan Margaret Legge". thepeerage.com. Retrieved 7 June 2013.
- ↑ National Portrait Gallery. "Group in fancy dress for the Shakespeare Memorial National Theatre Ball". npg.org.uk. Retrieved 7 June 2013.
- ↑ Edited by Richard W. Butler, and Douglas G.Pearce; Butler, Richard W. (1999). Tourism Development. London: Routledge. p. 205. ISBN 9780203380307.
{{cite book}}:|last=has generic name (help) - ↑ "Valley of Flowers". sikhnet.com. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
- ↑ N. Ulysses and Tabish, Thingnam Girija. "Trek to Valley of Flowers". Flowers of India. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
- ↑ "Mary Legge's Balsam". Flowers of India. Retrieved 10 July 2017.
- ↑ D.K. Singh, P.K. Pusalkar. "Three New Species of Impatiens (Balsaminaceae) from Western Himalaya, India" (PDF). Taiwania, 55(1): 13-23, 2010.