Winifred Waddell

Winifred Waddell, MBE, (8 October 1884, Cumberland, England – 1972) was an English-born Australian botanist. A Wildflower Sanctuary, named Winifred Waddell Wildflower Sanctuary.

Early life Waddell was the eldest of four children, born in an area called Head's Nook. She attended Carlisle High School for Girls, and won many prizes, including for mathematics and botany. Career Waddell has hand coloured a number of water coloured engravings in a book called ''Illustrations of the British Flora: a series of wood engravings with dissection of British Plants. She worked with native-plant preservation groups during the 1950s. "In all weathers you will find Miss Waddell peering round In odd places, on a disused railway line, in the middle of a racecourse, on the edge of an old gold mine in a lovely valley or in a creek bank for 'survivals'", noted one newspaper profile in 1954. She was awarded the Australian Natural History Medallion of the Field Naturalist Club of Victoria.