Lily Newton was professor of botany and vice-principal at the University of Wales.
16 Facts About Lily Newton
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Lily Newton attended Colston's Girls' School, Bristol, where she was captain of school.
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Lily Newton studied botany at the University of Bristol, where she was awarded the Vincent Stuckey Lean scholarship in botany and graduated with a first class honours degree.
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Lily Newton became assistant lecturer in Botany at Bristol in 1919, before moving to Birkbeck College, University of London the next year.
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Lily Newton worked as lecturer in botany until 1923, and then held a research post at the Imperial College of Science until her marriage in 1925.
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In 1928, Lily Newton moved to Wales, becoming lecturer in botany at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
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Lily Newton was promoted to professor of botany in 1930.
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Lily Newton's students were reported to remembered her as a dedicated teacher, whose lectures were always clear, well illustrated and a model of succinctness.
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Lily Newton is described as an imposing person and a strict disciplinarian, but as a kindly person, who would give help when it was needed.
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Lily Newton was asked to coordinate botanical work involving large scale production of agar from suitable British seaweeds.
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Lily Newton served on the Vegetable Drugs Committee of the Ministries of Supply and Health.
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Lily Newton was consulted subsequently on the biological effects of pollution in connection with a number of major industrial projects.
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Lily Newton acted as consultant to the Rheidol Hydro-Electric Scheme.
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Lily Newton lectured on fossil and flowering plants, plus playing an important role in the early work of the Nature Conservancy in Wales.
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Lily Newton married Dr William Charles Frank Newton in 1925, a cytologist at the John Innes Horticultural Institute.
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Lily Newton died at Pontardawe, near Swansea on 26 March 1981.