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Last Name Cuffe

Given Name Charlotte Isobel Wheeler °

alt. Names C. I. W. C. ; Charlotte Isobel Williams ;

Marriage civil engineer Sir Otway Wheeler Cuffe in 1889

Children

Year born 1867 London / Wimbledon, Surrey

Year died 1967

Place of death Lyrath, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Father's occupation lawyer William Williams

Relatives Reverend Sir Hercules Langrishe, 3rd baronet of Knocktopher (grandfather) ;

Education horticulture

Country of Activity Myanmar

Worked for Charles Rodgers at Forestry Department Burma ; Sir Frederick Moore ; Francis Kingdon-Ward ;

Patronage National Botanic Gardens Glasnevin ; Botanical Garden at Maymyo ;

Collaborators Winefred McNab ;

Techniques botanical painting and watercolour painting ;

Sample(s) http://www.botanicgardens.ie/lib/art.html ;

Archival sources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte,_Lady_Wheeler-Cuffe ;

Published sources AKL ; Joye Harvey & Marilyn Ogilvie: Biog Dict Women Science 2000, vol. 1: 307 ; Butler 2000: chapter 3 ;

other Further Places of Activity: Burma (c. 1889-1921) and India (designed the Botanical Garden at Maymyo) ;

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