Joan Margaret Legge

Lady Joan Margaret Legge (1885–1939) was a botanist from England who died on 4 July 1939 while collecting samples at Valley of flowers, India.

Early life

Joan Margaret Legge was born on 21 February 1885, to William Legge, 6th Earl of Dartmouth and Lady Mary Coke.[1][2] She held the office of Justice of Peace for Staffordshire.[1]

Death
Tomb of Joan Margaret Legge

In 1939 Joan Margaret Legge went to India to study flora of the Valley of Flowers on behalf of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew,[3] and while traversing some rocky slopes to collect flowers, she slipped off and lost her life.[4] Her sister came in search of Joan Margaret Legge and built a tomb inside the Valley of Flowers.[5] She died unmarried at the age of 54.[1]

Commemoration

A new species of Impatiens, found near the Valley of Flowers, was named as a tribute to Joan Margaret Legge in 2010. It is called Impatiens leggei. [6][7]

References
  1. "Lady Joan Margaret Legge". thepeerage.com. Retrieved 7 June 2013.
  2. National Portrait Gallery. "Group in fancy dress for the Shakespeare Memorial National Theatre Ball". npg.org.uk. Retrieved 7 June 2013.
  3. Edited by Richard W. Butler, and Douglas G.Pearce; Butler, Richard W. (1999). Tourism Development. London: Routledge. p. 205. ISBN 9780203380307.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
  4. "Valley of Flowers". sikhnet.com. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  5. N. Ulysses and Tabish, Thingnam Girija. "Trek to Valley of Flowers". Flowers of India. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  6. "Mary Legge's Balsam". Flowers of India. Retrieved 10 July 2017.
  7. D.K. Singh, P.K. Pusalkar. "Three New Species of Impatiens (Balsaminaceae) from Western Himalaya, India" (PDF). Taiwania, 55(1): 13-23, 2010.
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