Gigi Crompton was an American-British art conservator, botanist and author.
17 Facts About Gigi Crompton
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Gigi Crompton restored paintings for the Fogg Museum at Harvard in the USA and National and Walker art galleries in Britain.
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Gigi Crompton later became involved with botany and plant conservation and compiled the Catalogue of Cambridgeshire Flora Records since 1538.
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Gigi Crompton's parents were an American art historian and dealer Georg Richter and German aristocrat Amalie.
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Gigi Crompton was initially an American citizen and later a naturalised British citizen.
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Gigi Crompton was part of an artistic circle in London, knowing people such as Henry Moore.
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Gigi Crompton had an affair with the artist Roland Penrose between 1945 and his marriage to Lee Miller in 1947.
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Gigi Crompton wrote about art for magazines such as Art in America.
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Gigi Crompton became interested in plants and gardening, especially the history of plant distributions.
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Gigi Crompton studied through attending lectures at the University of Cambridge, communication with Max Walters, then Curator of the University of Cambridge Herbarium, and gardening staff on the estate where she lived.
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Gigi Crompton was employed to assist Max Walters for a short time on a monograph about the genus Silene and learnt how to use herbaria, specialist books and plant records.
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Gigi Crompton was a founding member of the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire Wildlife Trust in 1956 and had a role in its organisation for many years.
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Gigi Crompton worked with historic records, books, card indices and personal papers to compile information about the plants found in Cambridgeshire in an accessible form, which led to the Catalogue of Cambridgeshire Flora Records since 1538.
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Gigi Crompton became a member of the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland.
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Gigi Crompton was involved in long-term monitoring of a local population of lizard orchids, a rare plant in the UK, as well as other plants in the Devil's Dyke, Cambridgeshire Site of Special Scientific Interest.
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Gigi Crompton was the author or co-author of several botanical publications from 1959 onwards about the Thriplow estate, the Breckland, especially Lakenheath Warren and the flora of Devil's Dyke and Wicken Fen, all in East Anglia, as well as a book about the Cambridgeshire flora.
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In 2011, Gigi Crompton was made an honorary member of the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland.