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Edith Dent had six children. Two of her four sons were killed in the First World War and she wore black ever after. Her daughter Hilda Dent served as president of the Wild Flower
Society after her mother's death on 12 October 1948. Hilda's older sister Violet Schwerdt took over in 1956. She continued
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in the 1870s when her father became rector there. After leaving school she had responsibility for her youngest sister's education, and she also kept a diary where she recorded her observations of wild flowers. These two things led to her, at the age of 23, founding the Wild Flower
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to help members identify plants, and initiated a series of botanical tea parties in London. Although Dent was self-deprecating about her botanical expertise, she played a significant role in the world of
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which came out every two months (less frequently now). She always wrote an editor's letter and published articles which were sometimes by eminent botanists. She also attended to correspondence, presided over numerous different branches, managed subscriptions, published a
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which had belonged to previous generations of the Dent family. There they were prominent members of the local gentry and took on a number of leadership roles in the area. Edith Dent was president of the
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Westmorland… have collected extremely large sums of money, and distributed many thousands of parcels of comforts to our troops and Navy…" was part of a speech printed in the
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