Gertrude Clarke Nuttall (15 August 18674 May 1929) was a British botanist and science writer. She was one of the first women to take a degree in botany. She is best known as the author of the text for Wild Flowers as they Grow (1911), a book with colored photographs by H. Essenhigh Corke.
Life Gertrude Clarke was born on 15August 1867 at 1Charles Street, Humberstone Gate, Leicester, to surgeon Dr. Julius St. Thomas Clarke and his wife. She was one of the first women to take a degree in botany, however, it is not known in which British university she was educated.
In 1893, Clarke married Dr. Charles Nuttall in Leicester.England, Leicestershire Parish Registers, 1533-1991. familysearch.org. Accessed 9 August 2023.
Gertrude Clarke Nuttall wrote many semipopular botanical articles, and in collaboration with H. Essenhigh Corke published Wild Flowers as they Grow (1911), Trees and how they Grow (1913), and Beautiful Flowering Shrubs (1920). Each of three works ran to several editions.
During World War I, she went to France with the British Red Cross and was in charge of recreation huts there.
Gertrude Clarke Nuttall died on 4 May 1929 in St. Albans, Hertfordshire, aged 61.
Works
1905 – Guide to Leicester and Neighbourhood 1906 – French Prisoners in England: a side-light on the wars of Napoleon 1911 - Wild Flowers as they Grow 1913 - Trees and how they Grow 1920 - Beautiful Flowering Shrubs
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