Grace Wigglesworth

She spent over thirty years working as a curator at the Manchester Museum, where she cared for and published for botanical collections in the Herbarium.

Educated at Manchester High School, she studied at Owens College, gaining a BSc in 1903 and an MSc in palaeobotany in 1906.

[1] She was one of several women supported in their studies by Manchester’s botany professor, William Henry Lang.

[2] Wigglesworth was an honorary research fellow at the University until 1907, during which time she published several papers on early land plants.

From 1910 to 1944 she was Assistant Keeper at the Manchester Museum, where she fostered links between the botany, geology and zoology departments, also giving public lectures and demonstrations on palaeobotany, including lectures about the history of botany at the University of Manchester in 1926 and 1927.