Nellie Bancroft
Nellie Bancroft | |
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| Born | Helen Holme Bancroft 30 September 1887 Derby, England |
| Died | 2 October 1950 (aged 63) |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
| Spouse | Charles Eyres Simmons |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Botany, palaeobotany |
| Institutions | Bedford College Westfield College University of Oxford |
| Author abbrev. (botany) | H.H.Bancr. |
Helen Holme Simmons FRS FLS (née Bancroft; 30 September 1887 – 2 October 1950), commonly known as Nellie Bancroft, was a British botanist and scientific illustrator famous for her work on plant systematics and the anatomy of both living and fossil plants. Bancroft was while working for the Imperial Forestry Institute in France in 1940 captured by the Germans and spent four years in internment before being released and returning home in 1944.