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British horticulturist
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Female
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Birth:
1 January 1901
Death:
1 January 1980
The details
Biography
Beatrix Havergal (1901-1980) was an English horticulturist.
In 1932 Beatrix Havergal founded Waterperry School of Horticulture, a residential horticultural college for women. For many years Havergal won gold medal for her exhibit of Royal Sovereign strawberries at Chelsea Flower Show. When she retired as principal in 1971, Waterperry Horticultural School closed, though there remain gardens and a nursery there.
She was awarded the Royal Horticultural Society Veitch Memorial Medal and Victoria Medal of Honour in 1965.