Millicent Franks

Millicent Franks (6 October 1886 Durban - 11 February 1961 Winchester) was a South African botanical illustrator.

[1] At the age of 15, in November 1901, she took up the position of botanical artist and assistant to John Medley Wood at the Natal Herbarium in Durban, and when Frieda Lauth left the herbarium in 1903, Franks was appointed as chief botanical artist.

She collected and pressed some 370 plant specimens from Van Reenen, Camperdown and Durban, and these ended up at the Natal Herbarium and the National Herbarium in Pretoria.

[2] Franks moved to England in November 1914, working for three months at Kew Gardens on illustrations for Wood's 'Natal Plants'.

Brown, and Ischaemum franksae, named by John Medley Wood.