Maud Grieve

[4] Grieve's father died in 1864 and she grew up in the care of relatives in Beckenham, London, where she received a good education.

There is no record of her whereabouts or activities during the following four years, however by 1883 she had travelled to India, where she met and married William Grieve (1846–1929) originally from Edinburgh.

[4] Although William retired from the paper mills in 1894, the couple only returned to settle permanently back in England in the beginning of the 1900s.

[5] In 1914 the Board of Agriculture published The Cultivation & Collection of Medicinal plants in England to deal with the shortage of drug supplies in Britain during the war.

After the war she continued promoting the benefits of herbs, writing over three hundred pamphlets on individual plants.

[7] Grieve wrote Culinary herbs and condiments and Roses and pot pourri: Plants of sweet scent and their employment in perfumery.

Only a couple of her art works survive, an oil painting of an Indian street scene which she submitted to the 1884 Calcutta International Exhibition and the illustrations of croton plants, which are now in the Herbarium Library, Kew.