Chrystabel Procter

Chrystabel Prudence Goldsmith Procter (11 March 1894 – 21 June 1982) was an English gardener, educationalist and horticulturalist. Her career focused particularly on involving institutions and people in growing their own crops and on the education of women.

Early life

Chrystabel Procter was born in London on 11 March 1894, at 11 Kensington Square, Deaf from her mid-teens as a result of an hereditary condition on her mother's side of the family,

From the end of the war until her retirement in 1950 Chrystabel Procter became Estate Steward to Bryanston School in Blandford, Dorset.

Later life In the early 1960s ill health forced Chrystabel and Helen to return to England, where they settled in Somerset. Procter wrote a biography of Neatby, Helen Neatby: A Quaker in Africa (1973). Procter became a Quaker in the 1960s, but rejoined the Roman Catholic church in her last years. Procter died in 1982, at a nursing home in Weston-super-Mare, aged 88 years. Her papers are archived at the Girton College Library at the University of Cambridge.