Maud Grieve
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Mrs. Maud Grieve (b?-d?) was the Principal and Founder of The Whins Medicinal and Commercial Herb School and Farm at Chalfont St. Peter in Buckinghamshire, England.
The training school gave tuition and practical courses in all branches of herb growing, collecting, drying and marketing. Grieve had also been President of the British Guild of Herb Growers, and Fellow of the British Science Guild. Maud Grieve was a Fellow of the Royal Horticultural Society with an encyclopedic knowledge of medicinal plants.
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To meet a large demand for information on herbal medicines during the First World War, Mrs Grieve started publishing pamphlets on the cultivation of herbs and uses of herbal medicines. These pamphlets were highly regarded by her peers and were eventually published.
Grieve published "A Modern Herbal" in 1931 (ISBN 0-486-22798-7). The book contains medicinal, culinary, cosmetic and economic properties, cultivation and folklore of herbs. The book is still in print now.
