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Resting place
  
Bath Abbey

Name
  
Lady Murray

Notable work
  
The British Garden

Known for
  
Geranium pratense

Occupation
  
Botany


Born
  
2 August 1754 (
1754-08-02
)
Dunkeld, Scotland

Died
  
4 April 1808(1808-04-04) (aged 53) Bath, Somerset, England

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Lady Charlotte Murray (2 August 1754 – 4 April 1808) was an English botanist and author. She was the eldest child of John Murray, 3rd Duke of Atholl, and Charlotte Murray, Duchess of Atholl.

Contents

She is best known for her two-volume work The British Garden, which ran to two or three editions in her lifetime, the second (and possibly the first) being in 1799, and the third in 1805 or 1808, and another in 1880.

In 1793, Lady Charlotte discovered a double variety of Geranium pratense which she sent to Lady Banks.

She died in Bath on 4 April 1808, unmarried.

Works

  • Murray, Charlotte (c. 1799). A Descriptive Catalogue of Hardy Plants, Indigenous Or Cultivated in the Climate of Great Britain; with Their Generic and Specific Characters, Latin and English Names, Native Country, and Time of Flowering. 

    • References

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