Elizabeth Dale

Elizabeth Dale (27 March 1868 – 1936 [1]) was a British botanist, paleobotanist, plant pathologist, and author.

[1][2][3] She was born on 27 March 1868 in Warrington, Lancashire, the daughter of manufacturing chemist John Gallemore and his wife Clara, née Heys.

She was educated by a governess and then at a private school in Buxton, Derbyshire.

[1] She worked as an assistant in botany at the Balfour Biological Laboratory for Women at the University of Cambridge from 1897 to 1899.

[1] She worked as a garden steward at Girton, part time from 1912, and then full-time from 1914–1917.