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Sibille Ormston Ford was a botanist.

Sibille Ormston Ford (1874 – 1932) was an English botanist and zoologist.

She was born in Leeds, the daughter of a silk mill manager, in 1874. She was the niece of reformer Isabella Ormston Ford.

Ford gained a first class pass in botany and zoology at Newnham College, Cambridge in 1899. She received a Bathurst studentship to continue her studies in 1900–2, and taught as an assistant in animal morphology at the Balfour Biological Laboratory for Women in 1901–2. She received a BA from Trinity College, Dublin in 1906

Ford was a Quaker, and assisted with the Friends Relief Mission in Bar-le-Duc, Verdun in 1918–20. (with Alfred Seward) 'The Anatomy of Todea, with notes on the geological history and affinities of the Osmundaceae' (1903) 'The Anatomy of Psilotum triquetrum' (1904) (with Alfred Seward) 'The Araucarieae, recent and extinct' (1906)

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