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Marianne North, the Glossary

Marianne North (24 October 1830 – 30 August 1890) was a prolific English Victorian biologist and botanical artist, notable for her plant and landscape paintings, her extensive foreign travels, her writings, her plant discoveries and the creation of her gallery at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.^[1]

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Burials in Gloucestershire
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Alderley, Gloucestershire

Alderley (also previously known as Alderleigh) is a village and civil parish in the Stroud district of Gloucestershire, England, about fourteen miles southwest of Stroud and two miles south of Wotton-under-Edge.

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Art UK

Art UK is a cultural, education charity in the United Kingdom, previously known as the Public Catalogue Foundation.

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Banksia attenuata

Banksia attenuata, commonly known as the candlestick banksia, slender banksia, or biara to the Noongar people, is a species of plant in the family Proteaceae.

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Banksia grandis

Banksia grandis, commonly known as bull banksia or giant banksia, is a species of common and distinctive tree in the south-west of Western Australia.

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Banksia robur

Banksia robur, commonly known as swamp banksia, grows in sand or peaty sand in coastal areas from Cooktown in north Queensland to the Illawarra region on the New South Wales south coast.

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BBC Four

BBC Four is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC.

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Borneo

Borneo (also known as Kalimantan in the Indonesian language) is the third-largest island in the world, with an area of.

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Botanical illustration

Botanical illustration is the art of depicting the form, color, and details of plant species. Marianne North and Botanical illustration are Scientific illustrators.

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Brazil

Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest and easternmost country in South America and Latin America.

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Brian Houghton Hodgson

Brian Houghton Hodgson (1 February 1800 or more likely 1801 – 23 May 1894) was a pioneer naturalist and ethnologist working in India and Nepal where he was a British Resident.

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British Library

The British Library is a research library in London that is the national library of the United Kingdom.

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British Newspaper Archive

The British Newspaper Archive web site provides access to searchable digitized archives of British and Irish newspapers.

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Charles Darwin

Charles Robert Darwin (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology. Marianne North and Charles Darwin are English naturalists.

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Charlotte Sainton-Dolby

Charlotte Helen Sainton-Dolby (17 May 182118 February 1885), was an English contralto, singing teacher and composer. Marianne North and Charlotte Sainton-Dolby are Women of the Victorian era.

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Chile

Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America.

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Deputy lieutenant

In the United Kingdom, a deputy lieutenant is a Crown appointment and one of several deputies to the lord-lieutenant of a lieutenancy area – an English ceremonial county, Welsh preserved county, Scottish lieutenancy area, or Northern Irish county borough or county.

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Dudley North, 4th Baron North

Dudley North, 4th Baron North, KB (160224 June 1677) of Kirtling Tower, Cambridgeshire was an English politician, who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1628 and 1660. Marianne North and Dudley North, 4th Baron North are north family.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Flora

Flora (floras or florae) is all the plant life present in a particular region or time, generally the naturally occurring (indigenous) native plants. The corresponding term for animals is fauna, and for fungi, it is funga.

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Frederic Edwin Church

Frederic Edwin Church (May 4, 1826 – April 7, 1900) was an American landscape painter born in Hartford, Connecticut.

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Frederick North (MP)

Frederick North DL, JP (2 July 1800, Hastings – 29 October 1869), was a British Liberal politician. Marianne North and Frederick North (MP) are north family.

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Hastings

Hastings is a seaside town and borough in East Sussex on the south coast of England, east of Lewes and south east of London.

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Hastings (UK Parliament constituency)

Hastings was a parliamentary constituency in Sussex.

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India

India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.

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Jamaica

Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At, it is the third largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola—of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, west of Hispaniola (the island containing Haiti and the Dominican Republic), and south-east of the Cayman Islands (a British Overseas Territory).

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James Fergusson (architect)

James Fergusson FRS (22 January 1808 – 9 January 1886) was a Scottish-born architectural historian, mainly remembered for his interest in Indian historical architecture and antiquities.

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Java

Java is one of the Greater Sunda Islands in Indonesia.

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Joseph Dalton Hooker

Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (30 June 1817 – 10 December 1911) was a British botanist and explorer in the 19th century.

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Julia Margaret Cameron

Julia Margaret Cameron (11 June 1815 – 26 January 1879) was a British photographer who is considered one of the most important portraitists of the 19th century. Marianne North and Julia Margaret Cameron are 19th-century British women artists and Women of the Victorian era.

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Justice of the peace

A justice of the peace (JP) is a judicial officer of a lower court, elected or appointed by means of a commission (letters patent) to keep the peace.

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Katharine Saunders

Katharine Saunders (1824–1901) was a British-born Colony of Natal botanical illustrator, the sixth of seven children of the Revd Canon Charles Apthorp Wheelwright and Anna Hubbard of Tansor, Northamptonshire.

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Kensington

Kensington is an area of London in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, around west of Central London.

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Kew Gardens

Kew Gardens is a botanic garden in southwest London that houses the "largest and most diverse botanical and mycological collections in the world".

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Kniphofia northiae

Kniphofia northiae, the giant red-hot poker, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asphodelaceae, native to the Eastern Cape of South Africa.

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Liberal Party (UK)

The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties in the United Kingdom, along with the Conservative Party, in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Marjoribanks baronets

There have been two baronetcies created for persons with the surname Marjoribanks, both in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom.

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National Lottery (United Kingdom)

The National Lottery is the state-franchised national lottery established in 1994 in the United Kingdom.

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Natural history

Natural history is a domain of inquiry involving organisms, including animals, fungi, and plants, in their natural environment, leaning more towards observational than experimental methods of study.

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Nepenthes northiana

Nepenthes northiana, or Miss North's pitcher-plant,Phillipps, A. & A. Lamb 1996.

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New Zealand

New Zealand (Aotearoa) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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Northia seychellana

Northia is a genus of plants in the family Sapotaceae.

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Olana State Historic Site

Olana State Historic Site is a historic house museum and landscape in Greenport, New York, near the city of Hudson.

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Olearia argophylla

Olearia argophylla, commonly known as musk daisy-bush, native musk or silver shrub, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia.

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Pitcher plant

Pitcher plants are several different carnivorous plants that have modified leaves known as pitfall traps—a prey-trapping mechanism featuring a deep cavity filled with digestive liquid.

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Raoulia eximia

Raoulia eximia is a species of plant in the family Asteraceae.

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Roger North (biographer)

Roger North, KC (3 September 16531 March 1734) was an English lawyer, biographer, and amateur musician. Marianne North and Roger North (biographer) are north family.

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Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is a non-departmental public body in the United Kingdom sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

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Seychelles

Seychelles, officially the Republic of Seychelles (République des Seychelles; Seychellois Creole: Repiblik Sesel), is an island country and archipelagic state consisting of 115 islands (as per the Constitution) in the Indian Ocean.

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