Maureen Elizabeth Church

Maureen Elizabeth Church (née Griffiths; born 16 January 1930, in Swansea, Wales) is a Welsh-born botanist and a self-trained botanical illustrator.

(Botany) by the University of Sheffield in 1952, after which she attended St Hilda's College, Oxford.

Miss Maureen Griffiths arrived there as Herbarium Assistant in 1952 and started work on her thesis, "The Taxonomy and Ecology of the African species of Terminalia", at the same time preparing the illustrations for this work.

In 1957 she left to start a career in free-lance illustrating.

[2] Terminalia griffithsiana Liben was named in her honour.