Miss E. A. Willmott, F.L.S, V.M.H. of Warley Place, Essex
Information
Title
Miss E. A. Willmott, F.L.S, V.M.H. of Warley Place, Essex
Record type
Digitised Book Plate Collection
Original Reference
BP_34717-1001_1
Date
1931
Scope & content
Portrait of Ellen Ann Willmott (1858-1934) an English horticulturalist and influential member of the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS). She was the recipient of the Victoria Medal of Honour awarded by the society in 1897. Warley Place, Great Warley, Essex was her lifelong home. The book plate bears the imprints 'To whom volume CXXXIII is dedicated' and 'Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, December 1,1907'. From the periodical 'Curtis's Botanical Magazine dedications 1827-1927'