Margery Knight
Margery Knight (1889–1973) was an algologist, artist and lecturer at the Port Erin Marine Biological Station, University of Liverpool.
Margery Knight | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1889 |
| Died | 1973 Isle of Man, UK |
| Known for | algal taxonomy; university teacher |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University of Liverpool |
| Notable students | Mary Parke Elsie May Burrows Helen Blackler |
Career
Knight was a lecturer in botany at University of Liverpool from 1912 until she retired in 1954.[1] She was based at the University’s Port Erin Marine Biological Station on the Isle of Man.
Her research focused on the chromosome numbers and life histories of algae.[2] The book Manx algae; an algal survey of the south end of the Isle of Man that she published with Mary Parke in 1931 became a standard reference.[3]
Knight was the doctoral supervisor of Mary Parke, Elsie May Burrows and Helen Blackler.[2][4]
She was supportive of students, going as far as to provide finance to them from her own personal resources. On her 80th birthday ex-students and colleagues presented her with a tribute of an album of pressed seaweeds and messages.[1]
Publications
Her publications included:
- Manx algae; an algal survey of the south end of the Isle of Man by Margery Knight and Mary Parke, 1931, University of Liverpool Press.
- Knight, Margery (1924) XVII. Studies in the Ectocarpaceae. I. The life-history and cytology of Pylaiella litoralis, Kjellm. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh 53 (2) 343–360
- Knight, Margery (1930) XV. Studies in the Ectocarpaceae. II: the life-history and cytology of Ectocarpus siliculosus, Dillw. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh 56 (2) 307–332
- Margery Knight and Mary Parke (1950) A biological study of Fucus vesiculosus and F. serratus. Journal of the Marine Biological Association 29 (2) 439 – 515
Personal life
Her companion was Rose McKenna.[5] In 1936 she was in a car accident that resulted in the loss of one of her legs.[1] In retirement on the Isle of Man Knight painted landscapes in oil, some of which are in the collection of the University of Liverpool.[5] She died in 1973.
References
- "International Day of Women and Girls in Science". Special Collections & Archives at the University of Liverpool Library. University of Liverpool. Retrieved 27 July 2020.
- Reid, Geraldine (2018). "From the Shore to the Sublittoral: Liverpool's Algal Women". Collections. 14 (4). doi:10.1177/155019061801400405.
- Fogg, G.E. (2004). "Parke, Mary Winifred (1908–1989)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/57569. Retrieved 22 October 2012.
- Norton, Trevor A. (2007). "Elsie M. Burrows (1913–1986)". European Journal of Phycology. 22 (4): 317–319. doi:10.1080/00071618700650361.
- Ashcroft, Louise. "The Way of the Gull". Victoria Gallery and Museum. University of Liverpool. Retrieved 27 July 2020.