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Shirley Sherwood

Shirley Sherwood

British writer and botanist

Shirley Angela Sherwood OBE (née Cross, born 1 July 1933) is a British writer, botanist and philanthropist.

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The Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanic Art

Early life

She was born Shirley Cross.[2] Sherwood was educated at St Anne's College, Oxford. She took a bachelor's degree in botany and a D.Phil. working on a project that led to tagamet.[3]

Career

She is primarily a collector of,[4] and author of books about,[4][5] botanical illustrations. The Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art, opened on 19 April 2008, at Kew Gardens is named after her.[4] It was the first gallery in the world dedicated solely to botanical art. Sherwood has been described as a "driving force behind a revival of interest in botanical art".[6]

She is a vice-president of the Nature in Art Trust.[7]

Honours

Sherwood was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2012 New Year Honours for services to botanical art.[8]

Personal life

In 1977, Sherwood married the businessman James Sherwood,[2][9] who appeared in the 2004 Sunday Times Rich List.[10]

Her sons, Simon and Charles, from her previous marriage adopted his surname.[2]

Bibliography

  • The Art of Plant Evolution (2009), by Dr Shirley Sherwood and Dr W John Kress
  • Contemporary Botanical Artists: The Shirley Sherwood Collection (1996); 2nd edition 2003[11]
  • A New Flowering: 1000 Years of Botanical Art (2005), by Shirley Sherwood, Stephen Harris & Barrie Edward Juniper
  • Treasures of Botanical Art: Icons from the Shirley Sherwood and Kew Collections (2008), by Shirley Sherwood and Martyn Rix
  • A Passion For Plants: Contemporary Botanical Masterworks from the Shirley Sherwood Collection (2001)
  • Venice Simplon Orient-Express: The Return of the World's Most Celebrated Train (1983); 2nd edition 1985; 3rd edition 1990; 4th edition 1996
  • Shirley A. M. Cross (1977) Localization of histamine and histamine H2-receptor antagonists in the gastric mucosa The Histochemical Journal 9 pages 619–644

See also

References

  1. [1]
    "Sherwood, Shirley 1933-". encyclopedia.com. 2005. Retrieved 9 October 2014.
  2. [2]
    Adeney, Martin (11 June 2020). "James Sherwood obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 June 2020.
  3. [3]
    "Dr Shirley Sherwood". The Shirley Sherwood Collection. Retrieved 5 October 2021.
  4. [4]
    "Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art". Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Archived from the original on 2 January 2011. Retrieved 24 March 2010.
  5. [5]
    See Bibliography
  6. [6]
    "Woman's Hour: Shirley Sherwood". BBC. 2002. Retrieved 24 March 2010.
  7. [7]
    "Nature in Art - Trust". Nature in Art Trust. Retrieved 23 March 2010.
  8. [8]
    "No. 60009". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2011. p. 12.
  9. [9]
    "Dr Shirley Sherwood to Guest Curate Botanical ArtExhibition". Orient Express. 18 January 2005. Retrieved 25 March 2010.
  10. [10]
    "Sunday Times - Rich List". The Times. London.
  11. [11]
    "Review of Contemporary Botanical Artists: The Shirley Sherwood Collection". Publishers Weekly. 17 March 2003.


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