About Enid Mary Jesson
Lived 1889 – 1956 (aged 66). Enid Mary Jesson was a botanist and writer.
Enid Mary Cotton (née Jesson) (1 May 1889 Malvern, Victoria – 19 April 1956 Farnham Common) was an Australian-born English botanist who married Arthur Disbrowe Cotton in 1913/1915, raising a son and daughter.
She was the daughter of a mining engineer John Charles Jesson and Lilian née Dawson. On the family's return to England she worked at Kew and contributed text to Curtis's Botanical Magazine as well as Elinor Frances Vallentin's Illustrations of Flowering Plants of the Falkland Islands (1921).
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(1889-1956)
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Enid Mary Jesson was born on 1 May 1889.
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Enid Mary Jesson died on 19 April 1956.
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Enid Mary Jesson was a botanist and writer.
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