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Outdoor work, teaching and writing were among Duncan's great strengths. She refused opportunities to join formal committees, and when she was given her doctorate she never used the title Dr. She was a Fellow of the
Linnaean Society (FLS) as well as being honoured with their H. H. Bloomer award in 1973.
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species were a particular interest, and Duncan became a leading mid-20th century
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helped her initially when John Bishop Duncan encouraged her studies, and then she became known as a generous, knowledgeable and conscientious correspondent with her botanical friends and acquaintances, including people who asked for help with identifying specimens.
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exams at 15. Later, she followed this up with independent study leading to external degrees in classics from the
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job in London, from which he retired in 1919. For much of his daughter's life he was a locally prominent landowner with a specialist interest in breeding
Suffolk sheep. Frances Louise was Mrs. Frances Gunner at the time of her sister's death.
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Beatrice Dorothy Percy Weston. Her father had a successful naval career as a senior officer. In the year Ursula Duncan was born he started a
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collection including important lichen records and other material.
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