| 词条 | Joan Margaret Legge |
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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 lifeJoan 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] DeathIn 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] CommemorationA 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] References1. ^1 2 {{cite web|title=Lady Joan Margaret Legge|url=http://thepeerage.com/p7391.htm|publisher=thepeerage.com|accessdate=7 June 2013}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Legge, Joan Margaret}}2. ^{{cite web|last=National Portrait Gallery|title=Group in fancy dress for the Shakespeare Memorial National Theatre Ball|url=http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw225752/Group-in-fancy-dress-for-the-Shakespeare-Memorial-National-Theatre-Ball?LinkID=mp135420&role=sit&rNo=0#sitter|publisher=npg.org.uk|accessdate=7 June 2013}} 3. ^{{cite book|last=Edited by Richard W. Butler|first=and Douglas G.Pearce|title=Tourism Development.|year=1999|publisher=Routledge|location=London|isbn=9780203380307|page=205|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oQmGzEJoJKUC&pg=PA205&lpg=PA205&dq=Joan+Margaret+Legge+botanist&source=bl&ots=MtrcrtlEaP&sig=qpz3ed_fOOuKUforRVwmk9BOqJs&hl=en&sa=X&ei=3bWxUe2_FMbDrAfJloDYDA&ved=0CFMQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=Joan%20Margaret%20Legge%20botanist&f=false|author2=Butler, Richard W.}} 4. ^{{cite web|title=Valley of Flowers|url=http://www.sikhnet.com/oldsikhnet/HemkuntSahib/valley.htm|publisher=sikhnet.com|accessdate=5 June 2013}} 5. ^{{cite web|last=N. Ulysses and Tabish|first=Thingnam Girija|title=Trek to Valley of Flowers|url=http://www.flowersofindia.net/vof-trek/|publisher=Flowers of India|accessdate=5 June 2013}} 6. ^{{cite web|title=Mary Legge's Balsam|url=http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Mary%20Legge's%20Balsam.html|publisher=Flowers of India|accessdate=10 July 2017}} 7. ^{{cite web|last=D.K. Singh|first=P.K. Pusalkar|title=Three New Species of Impatiens (Balsaminaceae) from Western Himalaya, India|url=http://tai2.ntu.edu.tw/taiwania/pdf/tai.2010.55.13.pdf|publisher=Taiwania, 55(1): 13-23, 2010}} 6 : 1885 births|1939 deaths|Accidental deaths from falls|Accidental deaths in India|Daughters of British earls|Legge family |
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