Shirley Angela SherwoodOBE (née Cross, born 1 July 1933) is a British writer, botanist and philanthropist.
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]
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 Journal9 pages 619–644
^ a b"Sherwood, Shirley 1933-". encyclopedia.com. 2005. Retrieved 9 October 2014.
^ a b cAdeney, Martin (11 June 2020). "James Sherwood obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 June 2020.
^"Dr Shirley Sherwood". The Shirley Sherwood Collection. Retrieved 5 October 2021.
^ a b c"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.
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^"Woman's Hour: Shirley Sherwood". BBC. 2002. Retrieved 24 March 2010.
^"Nature in Art - Trust". Nature in Art Trust. Retrieved 23 March 2010.