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Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort (baptised 16 December 1630 – 7 January 1715) also known by her other married name of Mary Seymour, Lady Beauchamp and her maiden name Mary Capell, was an English noblewoman, gardener and botanist.
Victoria Constance Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort, CStJ (formerly Lady Mary Cambridge, née Princess Mary of Teck; 12 June 1897 – 23 June 1987) was a British peeress and sportswoman. The elder daughter of the 1st Marquess of Cambridge and Lady Margaret Grosvenor, she was the niece of Queen Mary.
12 de mar. de 2019 · This was Mary Somerset, the first Duchess of Beaufort (1630-1715), an accomplished gardener and botanist in her own right. She sought solace in “natural learning” and tending plants, some cultivated in what she referred to as her “infirmary.”
5 de mar. de 2019 · The duchess was known for keeping vast and complex gardens at her Badminton estate, which she diligently tended to, pruning shrubs, germinating seeds, and nurturing rare plants. As scholar Jennifer Munroe notes, Somerset described her work as “my innocent diversion of gardening.”
The Duchess of Botany. Under the supervision of Professor Simon Hiscock and Dr Richard Coulton (QMUL), India Cole is undertaking an AHRC-funded Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) project examining Mary Somerset, the first Duchess of Beaufort (1630-1715).
Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort may refer to: Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort (gardener) (1630–1715), introduced a number of exotic plants to British gardens; Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort (sportswoman) (1897–1987), relative of the British royal family
1 de jun. de 1997 · Mary Capel Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort, began seriously to collect plants in the 1690s. Assembled by such well-known gardeners and botanists as George London and Leonard Plukenet, her collection included seeds and plants from the West Indies, Africa, India, Sri Lanka, China and Japan.
