Ann P Conolly was a British botanist and teacher who contributed to quaternary botany and conducted important early work on the history and spread of Japanese Knotweed in the UK.
10 Facts About Ann Conolly
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Ann Conolly attended the University of Cambridge from 1936 to 1940 and studied Natural Sciences.
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Ann Conolly undertook doctoral studies on quaternary botany between 1940 and 1943, supported by a Rigby and a Francis Maitland Balfour studentships, under the supervision of Professor Harry Godwin.
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Ann Conolly's work contributed to Godwin's landmark book History of the British Flora published by CUP in 1956.
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Ann Conolly's teaching of plant geography and taxonomy, especially the annual field course, were an inspiration to future botanists.
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Ann Conolly was made an Honorary Member of the BSBI in 2009 in recognition of her work for the society's meetings and publications.
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Ann Conolly continued with this research for a further 20 years during her retirement.
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Ann Conolly used specimens from herbaria and information from the horticultural literature in Europe to show how the group of plants now called Japanese Knotweed changed from prizewinners in the Netherlands in 1847 to notifiable weeds in the UK in 1981.
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Ann Conolly attended the private Montessori school in Purley followed by Eothen Girls School in Caterham.
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Ann Conolly contracted polio in her teens when visiting continental Europe that resulted in impairment to her right leg.