Margery Knight
{{short description|British algologist and botanical artist (1889-1973)}}
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Margery Knight (1889–1973) was an algologist, artist and lecturer at the Port Erin Marine Biological Station, University of Liverpool.
Career
Knight was a lecturer in botany at University of Liverpool from 1912 until she retired in 1954.{{cite web |title=International Day of Women and Girls in Science |url=https://manuscriptsandmore.liverpool.ac.uk/?p=5137 |website=Special Collections & Archives at the University of Liverpool Library |publisher=University of Liverpool |accessdate=27 July 2020}} She was based at the University’s Port Erin Marine Biological Station on the Isle of Man.
Her research focused on the chromosome numbers and life histories of algae.{{cite journal |last1=Reid |first1=Geraldine |title=From the Shore to the Sublittoral: Liverpool's Algal Women |journal=Collections |date=2018 |volume=14 |issue=4 |doi=10.1177/155019061801400405}} The book Manx algae; an algal survey of the south end of the Isle of Man that she published with Mary Parke in 1931 became a standard reference.{{cite journal|last=Fogg|first=G.E.|title=Parke, Mary Winifred (1908–1989)|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/57569|journal=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|accessdate=2012-10-22|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/57569|year=2004|url-access=subscription}}
Knight was the doctoral supervisor of Mary Parke, Elsie May Burrows and Helen Blackler.{{cite journal |last1=Norton |first1=Trevor A. |title=Elsie M. Burrows (1913–1986) |journal=European Journal of Phycology |date=2007 |volume=22 |issue=4 |pages=317–319 |doi=10.1080/00071618700650361|doi-access=free }}
She was supportive of students, going as far as to provide finance to them from her own personal resources. On her 80th birthday ex-students and colleagues presented her with a tribute of an album of pressed seaweeds and messages.
Publications
Her publications included:
- Manx algae; an algal survey of the south end of the Isle of Man by Margery Knight and Mary Parke, 1931, University of Liverpool Press.
- Knight, Margery (1924) [https://doi.org/10.1017/S0080456800004051 XVII. Studies in the Ectocarpaceae. I. The life-history and cytology of Pylaiella litoralis], Kjellm. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 53 (2) 343–360
- Knight, Margery (1930) XV. [https://doi.org/10.1017/S008045680001322 Studies in the Ectocarpaceae. II: the life-history and cytology of Ectocarpus siliculosus, Dillw.] Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 56 (2) 307–332
- Margery Knight and Mary Parke (1950) A biological study of Fucus vesiculosus and F. serratus. Journal of the Marine Biological Association 29 (2) 439 – 515
Personal life
Her companion was Rose McKenna. In 1936 Knight was in a car accident that resulted in the loss of one of her legs. In retirement on the Isle of Man Knight painted landscapes in oil, some of which are in the collection of the University of Liverpool.{{cite web |last1=Ashcroft |first1=Louise |title=The Way of the Gull |url=https://vgm.liverpool.ac.uk/blog/2020/the-way-of-the-gull/ |website=Victoria Gallery and Museum |publisher=University of Liverpool |accessdate=27 July 2020}} She died in 1973.
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Category:20th-century British women scientists