Sibille Ford
English botanist and zoologist (1874–1932)
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Sibille Ormston Ford (1874 – 1932) was an English botanist and zoologist.
She was born in Leeds, the daughter of a silk mill manager, in 1874. She was the niece of reformer Isabella Ormston Ford.[1]
Ford gained a first class pass in botany and zoology at Newnham College, Cambridge in 1899. She received a Bathurst studentship to continue her studies in 1900–2, and taught as an assistant in animal morphology at the Balfour Biological Laboratory for Women in 1901–2.[1][2] She received a BA from Trinity College, Dublin in 1906[1] (where Cambridge alumni would travel to receive their degrees while Cambridge was not awarding them to women).
She published several solo and joint papers on plant anatomy, including a review of the Araucariaceae with Albert Seward which was published by the Royal Society in 1906.[3]
Ford was a Quaker, and assisted with the Friends Relief Mission in Bar-le-Duc, Verdun in 1918–20.[1]
She died in Grange-Over-Sands, Cumbria in 1932.[1]
Select works
- 'The anatomy of Ceratopteris Thalictroides' (1902)[5]
- (with Alfred Seward) 'The Anatomy of Todea, with notes on the geological history and affinities of the Osmundaceae' (1903)[6]
- 'The Anatomy of Psilotum triquetrum' (1904)[7]
- (with Alfred Seward) 'The Araucarieae, recent and extinct' (1906)[8]