Rosemary Charlotte Holcroft

Rosemary Charlotte Holcroft (née Temperley) (12 December 1942 Nairobi - 4 February 2000 Southport, Port Shepstone) was a South African botanical illustrator.

Rosemary was the daughter of Dr Bernard Nicholas Temperley,[1] a Tanzanian geologist, who, after two years, returned to England.

There he became discontented with English weather and the difficulties of post-WWII life in England, and returned to Kenya in East Africa.

In 1960 she left Kenya and joined the University of Cape Town Ballet School under Dulcie Howes, and was awarded a Diploma in Dance Teaching in 1963.

In 1974 some of her work was exhibited at the Association of South African Arts gallery in Pretoria to celebrate the eightieth birthday of Cythna Letty, and later that year some of her work was shown at the annual show of the South African Aloe and Succulent Society.