Rose Bracher

Rose Bracher (1894 – 15 July 1941) was a British botanist, mycologist and academic. She researched the ecology of the mud flats of the River Avon at Bristol and in particular the genus Euglena. She was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1938. Bracher lectured at the University of Bristol, and in 1941 she was the first non-professorial woman to be elected to the university Senate. The university offers a memorial prize in her name for the best student in botany, zoology and biology.

Life Bracher was born in Salisbury in Wiltshire in 1894, the eldest daughter of Reuben Bracher. She was educated at the school her father was headmaster at, and then obtained a B.Sc. in 1917, followed by a year of research with O. V. Darbishire, and then an M.Sc. in 1918 and a Ph.D. in 1927. All her degrees were from the University of Bristol. She worked as a demonstrator at the London School of Medicine for Women (1918–1920), and then was awarded the Rose Sidgwick Fellowship to spend a year researching mycology at the University of Wisconsin.

Selected publications Ecology in Town and Classroom J.W. Arrowsmith, Bristol, 1937 A Book of Common Flowers, illustrated by Dorothy Bromby; Oxford University Press, 1941