Name Beatrix Havergal | Died 1980 | |
Beatrix Havergal (1901-1980) was an English horticulturist.
In 1932 Beatrix Havergal founded Waterperry School of Horticulture, a residential horticultural college for women. For many years Havergal won gold medal for her exhibit of Royal Sovereign strawberries at Chelsea Flower Show. When she retired as principal in 1971, Waterperry School of Horticulture closed, though there remain gardens and a nursery there.
She was awarded the Royal Horticultural Society Veitch Memorial Medal and Victoria Medal of Honour in 1965.
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