Margery Knight

Margery Knight (1889–1973) was an algologist, artist and lecturer at the Port Erin Marine Biological Station, University of Liverpool.

Margery Knight
Born1889
Died1973
Known foralgal taxonomy; university teacher
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Liverpool
Notable studentsMary Parke
Elsie May Burrows
Helen Blackler

Career

Knight was a lecturer in botany at University of Liverpool from 1912 until she retired in 1954.[1] She was based at the University’s Port Erin Marine Biological Station on the Isle of Man.

Her research focused on the chromosome numbers and life histories of algae.[2] The book Manx algae; an algal survey of the south end of the Isle of Man that she published with Mary Parke in 1931 became a standard reference.[3]

Knight was the doctoral supervisor of Mary Parke, Elsie May Burrows and Helen Blackler.[2][4]

She was supportive of students, going as far as to provide finance to them from her own personal resources. On her 80th birthday ex-students and colleagues presented her with a tribute of an album of pressed seaweeds and messages.[1]

Publications

Her publications included:

Personal life

Her companion was Rose McKenna.[5] In 1936 she was in a car accident that resulted in the loss of one of her legs.[1] In retirement on the Isle of Man Knight painted landscapes in oil, some of which are in the collection of the University of Liverpool.[5] She died in 1973.

References

  1. "International Day of Women and Girls in Science". Special Collections & Archives at the University of Liverpool Library. University of Liverpool. Retrieved 27 July 2020.
  2. Reid, Geraldine (2018). "From the Shore to the Sublittoral: Liverpool's Algal Women". Collections. 14 (4). doi:10.1177/155019061801400405.
  3. Fogg, G.E. (2004). "Parke, Mary Winifred (1908–1989)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/57569. Retrieved 22 October 2012.
  4. Norton, Trevor A. (2007). "Elsie M. Burrows (1913–1986)". European Journal of Phycology. 22 (4): 317–319. doi:10.1080/00071618700650361.
  5. Ashcroft, Louise. "The Way of the Gull". Victoria Gallery and Museum. University of Liverpool. Retrieved 27 July 2020.
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