About Mary Fielding
Lived 1804 – 1895 (aged 91). Mary Fielding was a botanist.
Mary Maria Fielding (née Simpson; 25 January 1804 – 22 February 1895), baptised on 22 May 1804, was a British botanist and botanical illustrator. She was the daughter of John Simpson, a merchant from Lancaster. She was the wife of fellow botanist Henry Fielding, whom she married in Liverpool on 21 December 1826. A native of Lancaster, Lancashire, between 1830 and 1833 she produced six volumes of botanical watercolours which have been cited as an "important source for the study of the county's flora in the early nineteenth century". ended up in Oxford University and in thanks the university gave her brother an M.A.
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Who was Mary Fielding?
English botanist (1804-1895)
When was Mary Fielding born?
Mary Fielding was born on 25 January 1804.
When did Mary Fielding die?
Mary Fielding died on 22 February 1895.
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Mary Fielding was a botanist.
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