Juliet Frankland
Juliet Camilla Frankland FLS (née Brown, 30 January 1929 – 9 June 2013), was a British botanist and mycologist, and "a world expert on fungi".[1]
Juliet Frankland | |
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| Born | Juliet Camilla Brown 30 January 1929 Effingham, Surrey, England |
| Died | 9 June 2013 Stobars Hall, Kirkby Stephen, Cumbria, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Royal Holloway, University of London |
| Occupation | mycologist |
| Known for | "a world expert on fungi" |
| Spouse | (Edward) Raven Percy Frankland |
| Parent(s) | Walter Henry Brown Gerda Lois Brown, née Grenside |
| Relatives | Dame Gillian Brown (sister) |
Early life
She was born Juliet Camilla Brown on 30 January 1929 at High Barn Eaves, Effingham, Dorking, Surrey, the younger daughter of Walter Henry Brown (1893/4–1956), a Ministry of Works civil servant, and his wife, Gerda Lois Brown, née Grenside (1885–1961), an artist.[2]
She earned a bachelor's degree and PhD from Royal Holloway, University of London.[3]
Career
In 1956, she started her career, working for the Nature Conservancy (later part of the Natural Environment Research Council) as a mycologist at Merlewood, Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire.[2] This later became the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology.[1]
In 1969, Frankland was elected as a fellow of the Linnean Society.[2]
Frankland was president of the British Mycological Society (BMS) in 1995.[3]
Personal life
On 3 June 1959, she married (Edward) Raven Percy Frankland (1918–1997), a farmer from Ravenstonedale, near Kirkby Stephen, Westmorland, the son of scientist and novelist Edward Percy Frankland, and grandson of the chemist Sir Edward Frankland.[2]
They lived at Bowberhead, a farmhouse a few miles from Ravenstonedale, and did not have any children.[2]
Later life
In 1997, her husband Raven Frankland died suddenly, and she was left to run the estate alone.[2] Her sister, Dame Gillian Brown, a retired diplomat, and the UK's ambassador to Norway, 1981 to 1983, moved to Bowberhead to help, but died unexpectedly in 1999.[2]
Frankland suffered severe depression, and moved into Stobars Hall, a care home in Kirkby Stephen, where she died on 9 June 2013 from dementia and cardiovascular disease.[2]
References
- "Dr Juliet Frankland". The Times. 14 August 2013. Retrieved 27 November 2017.
- Haines, Catharine M. C. "Frankland [née Brown], Juliet Camilla (1929–2013)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. OUP. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/109245. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
- Robinson, Clare H.; Swift, Michael J. (9 June 2013). "Obituary - Dr Juliet Camilla Frankland (1929-2013)". The British Mycological Society. Retrieved 27 November 2017.