Violet Dickson, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetViolet Dickson
English botanist, writer, and Orientalist
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About Violet Dickson
- Hajjiyah Dame Violet Penelope Dickson, DBE (née Lucas-Calcraft; 3 September 1896 – 4 January 1991) was the wife of British colonial administrator H.
- R.
- P.
- Dickson.
- She lived in Kuwait for 61 years, half of them as a widow, and published several books on the country.
- She was a keen amateur botanist and had a plant, Horwoodia dicksoniae, named in her honour.
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