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El Loro posted:

So a mystery from 1898 - who was and what happened to the mysterious gardener Miss Harrison  was was turned down for a scholarship at the RHS even though she won the entrance competition, just because "Only males being allowed at Chiswick, it was never contemplated that a female might claim the Scholarship." 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/sci...environment-45552079

Mentioned today on the BBC that her family have said that she was Olive Mary Harrison. Although she wasn't awarded the scholarship she was given a medal. She carried on gardening working for the Cadbury family in Birmingham until she married.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/sci...environment-45840661

El Loro
El Loro posted:
El Loro posted:

So a mystery from 1898 - who was and what happened to the mysterious gardener Miss Harrison  was was turned down for a scholarship at the RHS even though she won the entrance competition, just because "Only males being allowed at Chiswick, it was never contemplated that a female might claim the Scholarship." 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/sci...environment-45552079

Mentioned today on the BBC that her family have said that she was Olive Mary Harrison. Although she wasn't awarded the scholarship she was given a medal. She carried on gardening working for the Cadbury family in Birmingham until she married.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/sci...environment-45840661

Interesting El 

Baz

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