Louisa Lane Clarke | |
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Born | Louisa Lane 1812 |
Died | 8 November 1883 L'Hyvreuse, Saint Peter Port, Guernsey | (aged 70–71)
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Louisa Lane Clarke (née Louisa Lane; 1812 – 8 November 1883) was a British botanist and travel writer, best known for her microscopy work on plants.
Louisa Lane was born in 1812 in the Channel Islands, the eldest daughter of Ambrose Lane and Elizabeth Lane, née Le Mesurier. On 14 September 1841, Lane married the Revd. Thomas Clarke (c. 1805 – 1864), Rector of Woodeaton, Oxfordshire. They then relocated to East Bergholt, Suffolk.[1][2]
Clarke wrote numerous travel guides. She is best known for her later botanical work popularizing microscopy.[3]
Her husband died in 1864 and she relocated to Guernsey with her daughter, Theodora, by the following year. Clarke died in L'Hyvreuse, Saint Peter Port, Guernsey.[3][1]