Evelyn M. Lobley

Evelyn M. Lobley (1902–1977) was a bryologist and botanical collector in northern England.

Lobley lived in Hexham, Northumbria [1] She made significant contributions to the British Bryological Society which she had joined in 1930.

As well as recording and mapping the moss flora around her home area in Northumberland and Durham, she also travelled frequently to the highlands of Scotland and the Outer Hebrides to record mosses with others in the society such as Ursula Duncan and Kathleen Blackburn.

They include: A collection of 4,500 of Lobley's moss specimens along with some books and manuscripts is held in the herbarium at the Great North Museum: Hancock in Newcastle upon Tyne.

[3] Her manuscript draft of a bryological flora of Roxburgh is at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.