Patricia Halliday (9 March 1930 - 14 April 2019) was an English botanist and Illustrator who worked at Kew Gardens.[1][2]

Biography

Patricia Halliday was born in East Sheen, Richmond. She started working as Assistant Scientific Office at the Herbarium, Kew Gardens in 1947, promoted to Higher Scientific Officer in 1985. She worked as a taxonomist with special interest in the Compositae and the genus Kleinia, as well as botanical illustration; she retired in 1990.[3]

For her illustrations the Royal Horticultural Society awarded her the Grenfell Bronze Medal (1989),[4] the Grenfell Silver-gilt Medal (1990, 1993), and the Lindley Silver-gilt Medal (1991). Her work is represented in the Hunt Botanical Library.[2]

She also wrote humorous verse.[2]

She died in East Sheen in 2019.[5]

Kleinia patriciae C.Jeffrey is named for her.[6][7]

Selected publications

  • Snaily Verse (1972). Pat Halliday. The Marsland Press.
  • Sea-Snaily Verse et cetera (1981). Pat Halliday. The Marsland Press.
  • Myrsinaceae (1984). P. Halliday. Flora of Tropical East Africa. ISBN 9789061913108
  • The genus Kleinia (Compositae) in Arabia. (1984). P. Halliday. Kew Bulletin 39(4) 817-827 doi:10.2307/4107755
  • Noteworthy Species of Kleinia (1988). P. Halliday. Hooker's Icones Plantarum 39(4). Bentham-Moxon Trust. ISBN 9780950487663
  • The Illustrated Rhododendron: Their Classification Portrayed Through the Artwork of Curtis's Botanical Magazine. (2001). Pat Halliday. Timber Press. ISBN 9780881925104

References

  1. 1 2 "Halliday, Patricia (1930-)". International Plant Name Index (IPNI). Retrieved 29 November 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 "Halliday, Pat 1930-". encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 29 November 2021.
  3. ↑ "News of Kewites at home and abroad in 1990". The Journal of the Kew Guild 10(95) 1991. 10 (95): 941. 1991 – via The Kew Guild.
  4. ↑ Sands, Martin (1990). "News of Kewites at home and abroad in 1989". The Journal of the Kew Guild. 10 (94): 856 – via The Kew Guild.
  5. ↑ "Deceased Estates". The Gazette.
  6. ↑ Jeffrey, Charles (1986). "The Senecioneae in East Tropical Africa: Notes on Compositae: IV". Kew Bulletin. 41 (4): 927. doi:10.2307/4102988. JSTOR 4102988.
  7. ↑ Eggli, Urs; Newton, Leonard E. (2013-06-29). Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 179. ISBN 978-3-662-07125-0.
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