Beatrix Havergal

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.^[1] When she retired as principal in 1971, Waterperry Horticultural School closed, though there remain gardens and a nursery there.^[2]

References

^ Waterperry - History
^ 'Waterperry Gardens, Oxfordshire', in Julia Brittain, Plants, People, and Places, 2006.

External links

Portraits of Beatrix Havergal at the National Portrait Gallery, London

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Name	Havergal, Beatrix
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Date of birth	1901
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Date of death	1980
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