Amherst, Alicia (1865 - 1941)

Short name Amherst, Alicia
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First name Alicia
Birth name Amherst
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Alternative name Alicia Cecil , Mrs Evelyn Cecil , Alicia Margaret Tyssen Amherst Baroness Rockley
Date of birth 1865
Date of death 1941
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Sex Female
Place of birth England
Place of death England
Lived in England
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Unknown maker, photograph of Alicia Amherst, in Gunn, M.; Codd, L.E. Botanical Exploration of Southern Africa, 1920
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Education Educated at home
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Amherst, Alicia was ...
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Memberships The Victoria League for Commonwealth Friendship
Place(s) of Residence England
Receptions of Amherst, Alicia, the person (for receptions of her works, see under each individual Work)
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Unknown maker, photograph of Alicia Amherst, in Gunn, M.; Codd, L.E. Botanical Exploration of Southern Africa, 1920 None is portrait of
- Ogilvie, Marilyn; Harvey, Joy; Rossiter, Margaret (eds), The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science. Pioneering Lives From Ancient Times to the Mid-20th Century. New York: Routledge, 2014. - Riedi, Elizabeth L., Imperialist Women in Edwardian Britain: The Victoria League 1899-1914. (PhD Thesis submitted at University of St. Andrews, 1998) - Tomes, Jason, ‘Amherst , Alicia Margaret [married name Alicia Margaret Cecil, Lady Rockley] (1865–1941)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004
Mostly known for her description of gardens and the history of gardening. Combined her imperialist views and love for gardening in Wild Flowers of the Great Dominions of the British Empire (1935) Collected plants in South Africa, Mozambique (1899), Rhodesia (1900), Ceylon, Australia, New Zealand, Canada (1927). (Ogilvie e.a. p.1116) According to Oxford DNB: Had access to a large family library. Educated by governesses. Married in 1898. According to Riedi (p. 18): Spent five months in South Africa with her husband in 1899. Evelyn Cecil wrote about the South African situation in On the Eve of War (1900).