Olga Margaret Stewart
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Mrs Olga Margaret Stewart (1/7/1920-6/8/1998)
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Biography
Olga Margaret Stewart née Mounsey. Prolific Scottish botanist and botanical artist.
Born 1st July, 1920, in Edinburgh.
1938–1939 studied architecture at the Art College in Edinburgh.
1939–1940 studied engineering at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada.
1940–1943 served as a Naval Dockyard draftswoman for the National Research Council of Canada in Halifax.
1943–1945 worked for the Royal Navy in Edinburgh.
Married 28th Nov, 1946, to Frank Stewart (lawyer).
1947 joined the Wild Flower Society.
1965 joined BSBI and became vice-county recorder for Kirkcudbrightshire (vc73, Scotland).
1978 created most of the drawings for Mary McCallum Webster's Flora of Moray, Nairn and East Inverness.
Died 6th August 1998.
Gave name to Olga's dandelion, Taraxacum olgae, A. J. Richards, Watsonia 13. 1981.
Obituary: Watsonia 22 (1999), 443-449.
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1933
1997
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