Eliza Standerwick Barnes was born in Thrapston in Northamptonshire in 1840.
She was always interested in botany but she did not become a published botanist until she was older at the age of 64.
Gregory is credited with the discovery of the Cornish fumitory, Fumaria occidentalis.
She reported that she found it on the edge of a wood at Lelant.
[3] It includes samples from southern England and from Northern Ireland.