Elizabeth Joan Gibbons

Elizabeth Joan Gibbons (1902 – 2 December 1988) was a British botanist. Her Flora of Lincolnshire, which was the first flora of that county, was the first county flora to be written by a woman. She was also the first woman elected as president for a second term by the Lincolnshire Naturalists’ Union.

Biography Gibbons was born in Essex, but her family moved to Holton le Moor (Lincolnshire) in 1907 when Gibbons was five. Through her father, Rev. Thomas Gibbons, she attended meetings of the Lincolnshire Naturalists' Union as a child and joined as a member when she was 18. She became the Botanical Secretary of the LNU in 1936, a position she held for more than 50 years, and served as the Union's President for the first time in 1939.

Publications Collins, E.J. 1975. The Flora of Lincolnshire. Collins, E.J. and Weston, I. 1985. Supplement to The Flora of Lincolnshire. Lincolnshire Naturalists' Union.