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Kathleen Basford

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In the late 1940s Basford began cultivating and hybridising species of fuchsia. She took evening classes on botany at Manchester University. In 1952, she wrote a paper for the Journal of the Fuchsia Society describing a hybrid fuchsia from a New Zealand fuchsia and a Mexico fuchsia, proving this form
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She studied at Harrogate Ladies College where biology was not on the curriculum. She then studied botanical drawing at an art school in Nottingham where she met Freddie Basford, a PhD chemistry student. They married in 1936. They later went on to live in Manchester and have 3 children.
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Basford travelled with Harland to Peru to work on breeding varieties of maize. Upon return to the UK, she took a position at the Department of Diagnostic Cytology at
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Basford was born in Grantham in 1916 and developed her interest in botany from her nanny, Winny, who taught her how to identify types of trees and wildflowers.
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between a New Zealand and Mexican fuchsia, proving this form of flower existed 20–30million years ago, before the continents had separated.
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of flower existed 20–30 million years ago. This was used as evidence for continental drift and the continents had separated.
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Fushsia research at Manchester University, The Fushsia Annual (1956); 18-23.
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She is also known for her research into the cultural significance of the
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Blacker, Carmen (January 1999). "Kathleen Basford, 1916–1998".
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This earned her a job at the Botany Department at the
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Grantham, Lincolnshire
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Christie Hospital
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"Kathleen Basford obituary"




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