Rebecca Hey

Rebecca Hey was born in Leeds and baptised at St. Peter on 21 April 1797.

[3] William Hey was one of the original 300 Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1843.

[5] In the preface Hey credits the authors Sir J. E. Smith and Mr Drummond for the botanical information included in the descriptions.

Hey’s purpose is to “draw such a moral from each flower that is introduced as its appearance, habits, or properties might be supposed to suggest".

[9] Her final publication Holy Places, and Other Poems focused more on religion and the proceeds from the book went to Special Missions in India.