Eleanor Mary Reid

Eleanor Mary Reid (born Eleanor Mary Wynne Edwards) (1860–1953) was a British palaeobotanist. Throughout her life she worked closely with her husband, Clement Reid, a trained botanist and geologist, and later worked alongside Marjorie Chandler.

Early life and education

Eleanor Mary Wynne Edwards was born on 13 November 1860 in Denbigh to parents John and Maria Wynne Edwards. She attended the Westfield College in London, England and earned her BSc in 1892. Reid wasn't originally educated in paleontology or botany, she taught physics and maths at the prestigious Cheltenham Ladies College. It was through her husband, Clement Reid, an experienced botanist and paleontologist, where her interest in prehistoric plant life arose.

She married Clement Reid in 1897 and it was through their collaboration in paleobotany that she became one of the leading female scholars of geology. she published her monograph on Pliocene floras in 1920. and she established a new lifelong scientific partnership and friendship with Marjorie Chandler who had obtained a first class degree in the natural sciences at Cambridge University the year before. for her accomplishments in the findings of new geological information and innovative techniques.

Reid gratefully received the Murchison Fund in 1919,

Reid died on 28 September 1953 from cerebral thrombosis, in Milford on Sea, Hampshire.