Lady Joan Margaret Legge
Lady Joan Margaret Legge JP (1885–1939) was an English botanist who had a fatal accident while collecting samples in the Valley of Flowers in India.
Early life[edit]
Legge was born on 21 February 1885 to William Legge, 6th Earl of Dartmouth, and Lady Mary Coke.[1][2] She held the office of Justice of Peace for Staffordshire.[1]
Death[edit]
In 1939 Legge went to India to study flora in the Valley of Flowers on behalf of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.[3] While traversing some rocky slopes to collect flowers, she slipped off and lost her life.[4] She died unmarried at the age of 54.[1]
Legge's sister came in search of her and built a tomb in the Valley of Flowers.[5]
Commemoration[edit]
In 2010 a new species of Impatiens found near the Valley of Flowers was named Impatiens leggei as a tribute to Legge.[6][7]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c "Lady Joan Margaret Legge". thepeerage.com. Retrieved 7 June 2013.
- ^ National Portrait Gallery. "Group in fancy dress for the Shakespeare Memorial National Theatre Ball". npg.org.uk. Retrieved 7 June 2013.
- ^ Edited by Richard W. Butler, and Douglas G.Pearce; Butler, Richard W. (1999). Tourism Development. London: Routledge. p. 205. ISBN 9780203380307.
{{cite book}}:|last=has generic name (help) - ^ "Valley of Flowers". sikhnet.com. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
- ^ N. Ulysses and Tabish, Thingnam Girija. "Trek to Valley of Flowers". Flowers of India. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
- ^ "Mary Legge's Balsam". Flowers of India. Retrieved 10 July 2017.
- ^ D.K. Singh, P.K. Pusalkar. "Three New Species of Impatiens (Balsaminaceae) from Western Himalaya, India" (PDF). Taiwania, 55(1): 13-23, 2010.