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Winifred Lily Boys Smith

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Occupation
  
Scientist, Professor


Name
  
Winifred Boys-Smith

Born
  
November 7, 1865 (
1865-11-07
)
Corsham, Wiltshire, England

Died
  
January 1, 1939(1939-01-01) (aged 73)

Winifred Lily Boys-Smith (7 November 1865–1 January 1939) was an English-born New Zealand science artist and lecturer, university professor, school principal. She was born in Corsham, Wiltshire, England on 7 November 1865.

She taught at Cheltenham Ladies College.

Her nephew, John Sandwith Boys Smith, was Master of St John's College, Cambridge and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge from 1963 to 1965.

Books illustrated

  • Laurie, Charlotte (1903). Flowering Plants: Their Structure And Habitat. Allman and Sons. 
  • Laurie, Charlotte (1905). A text-book of elementary botany. Allman and Sons. 

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