Lady Beatrix Taylour

On 26 November 1903, at the age of 26, she married soldier and politician George Stanley, and they had a daughter, Barbara Helen Stanley (1906-1986), three years later. Stanley and an infant Barbara starred on the cover of Country Life magazine in July 1907.

On 26 October 1929, Stanley's husband was appointed governor of Madras in the British Raj. Stanley's body of watercolour work was created during her residency in India, in Ootacamund, Tamil Nadu, where she developed the gardens around their official residence. She studied the plants and gardening practises in the local climate with local fauna, as well as British plants which had been imported. The family returned to the UK in 1934.

Stanley also wrote about horticulture, including the article “Gardening in India,” published in the 23 May 1931 edition of The Gardener’s Chronicle.

Stanley was appointed to the Order of the Crown of India. She was made CBE in the New Years Honours of 1920, for services to horticulture. such as Galanthus ‘Lady Beatrix Stanley’, a double snowdrop, which was named after her in 1981.