Henderina Scott

Henderina Victoria Scott (18 July 1862 – 18 January 1929) was an English botanist who pioneered time-lapse photography of plants.

She was born Henderina Victoria Klaassen in Brixton in the Surrey outskirts of London in 1862.

Her father, Hendericus M. Klaassen, had emigrated from Hanover, Germany and was a successful businessman.

Individual flowers of this species lived much longer in greenhouses in the UK than in its warmer natural habitat in South Africa.

This was substantially before the better-known early time-lapse photographs of flowers by F. Percy Smith.

In 1907 she and her husband retired to East Oakley House near Basingstoke in Hampshire where she became involved in school and local politics, as well as hosting visits from many international botanists.