Marianne North

Marianne North
North at her home in Ceylon before 1879. Photographed by Julia Margaret Cameron
Born(1830-10-24)24 October 1830
Hastings, Sussex, England
Died30 August 1890(1890-08-30) (aged 59)
Alderley, Gloucestershire, England
Parent(s)Frederick North
Janet Marjoribanks

Marianne North (24 October 1830 – 30 August 1890) was an English biologist and botanical artist, known for her plant and landscape paintings, her extensive foreign travels, her writings, her plant discoveries and the creation of her gallery at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. She was born in Hastings, England, on 24 October 1830.

She was the eldest daughter of a prosperous land-owning family descended from Roger North, younger son of Dudley North, 4th Baron North. Her father was Frederick North, a Norfolk Deputy Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace, and Liberal M.P. for Hastings.

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