Cultivators: Helen Gwynne-Vaughan

Womanica

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Society & Culture, Education, History

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🗓️ 2 April 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Commandant Dame Helen Gwynne-Vaughan (1879-1967) was an acclaimed botanist who studied and published papers and textbooks on the reproduction of fungi. She also had a military career in both World Wars, and was appointed the first Chief Controller of the Auxiliary Territorial Service.

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1:22.8	experimented, or went to great lengths to better understand and protect the natural world.
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1:35.3	leans down and squints through one eye.
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