Miss Gertrude Bacon

[mossysal]

See http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/233463/

Miss Bacon was clearly a formidable person - she was a balloonist and a member of the Royal Photographic Society as well as a "prominent member in her own right"* of the Botanical Society and Exchange Club.

She married T J Foggitt, under whose name she appears on H@H but without a link to her maiden name. She was credited as one of the first two people to find Carex microglochin in Britain.

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03746602709469389

Allen, D E; The Botanists

[Chris Liffen]

see also http://rbgweb2.rbge.org.uk/bbs/Learning/Bryohistory/History%20of%20British%20Bryology.pdf [pdf]
Wilson was also a friend of John Foggitt (born 1861/2) of Thirsk (later of Southport and Kirkby Lonsdale); three generations of Foggitts of Thirsk were botanists, starting with Thomas J. (1810-1895), his son William (1835-1917), and then grandson Thomas Jackson (1858-1934), who married Gertrude née Bacon, co-discoverer of Carex microglochin in Scotland in 1923.
and
http://archive.bsbi.org.uk/BSBINews56.pdf [pdf] and search for Foggitt.

for ballooning see http://archive.org/stream/balloonsairship00bacogoog#page/n4/mode/2up