Lady Beatrix Stanley

Lady Beatrix Stanley, CI (née Taylour; 1877 – 3 May 1944) was a British aristocrat, horticulturalist, and botanical artist who drew plants native to Chennai,[clarification needed] India, and consequently has multiple flower strains named after her, most notably an iris and snowdrop,[1][2] such as Galanthus ‘Lady Beatrix Stanley’, a double snowdrop, which was named after her in 1981.

[3] Stanley was born in 1877 to Thomas Taylour, the 3rd Marquess of Headfort, and his wife Emila Costantia.

Stanley herself died six years later at their family home of Sibbertoft Manor, Market Harborough.

[2] Stanley's daughter Barbara married Major Sir Charles James Buchanan.

Through their descendants the bulbs that Stanley was so passionate about continue to be grown at the historic Hodsock Priory.