Margaret Lawder

Margaret Lawder (1900-1983) was an Irish and South African botanist known for her conservation work. In 1922, at the age of 22, she emigrated to the Cape of Good Hope with her husband Commander Edward Francis Lawder R.N. and they became official plant collectors for the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden in Cape Town. Edward took pictures of the flowers and Margaret wrote the descriptions of them.

Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden (April 2013)
Margaret Lawder
Born1900
Ireland
Died1983 (Aged 83)
South Africa
Known forConservation and collection of plants for Kirstenbosch
Spouse(s)Edward Francis Lawder

They contributed articles to the Journal of the Botanical Society both before and after it became Veld & Flora.[1][2][3] They also contributed articles about Cape plants to other South African and international journals.[4]

Lawder lived on Leliefontein farm in the Klein Drakenstein area.[1][5] She introduced the cultivation of Watsonia marginata, a plant endemic to Leliefontein farm.[1]

Watsonia marginata

She was one of the founding members of the Paarl Beautifying Society in 1931 when the area was overrun with alien vegetation. They established an indigenous garden in a section of the Paarl Mountain Nature Reserve, known as Meulwater Wild Flower Reserve.[1][6] She was also a founding member and the first president of the Country Garden Club in the Paarl district.[1]

She was actively involved in botany until her death in 1983.[7]

References
  1. "Obituary: Margaret Lawder". Veld and Flora. 69 (3): 126. September 1983. ISSN 0042-3203. Retrieved 14 February 2019.
  2. Lawder, Margaret (January 1966). "The Farmer and the Flora". Journal of the Botanical Society of South Africa. 52 (1): 26. ISSN 0042-3203. Retrieved 14 February 2019.
  3. Lawder, Margaret (1967). "Sowing and Growing at Kirstenbosch". Journal of the Botanical Society of South Africa. 53 (1): 31.
  4. Lawder, Margaret (March 1973). "Seeds from South Africa". The National Cactus and Succulent Journal of the British Cactus and Succulent Society. 28 (1): 21.
  5. "Work in Progress". Quarterly Newsletter. Garden History Society. 4 (4): 14–16. Spring 1967. JSTOR 1586179.
  6. Watkins, Karen (20 June 2011). "Diamond of Paarl". iol.co.za. Independent On-line. Retrieved 14 February 2019.
  7. Ogilvie, Marilyn Bailey; Harvey, Joy Dorothy (2000-01-01). The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: L-Z. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9780415920407. Retrieved 14 February 2019.
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