Juliet Frankland

Juliet Camilla Frankland (née Brown, 30 January 1929 – 9 June 2013), was a British botanist and mycologist, and "a world expert on fungi". Early life She was born Juliet Camilla Brown on 30 January 1929 at High Barn Eaves, Effingham, Dorking, Surrey, the younger daughter of Walter Henry Brown (1893/4–1956), a Ministry of Works civil servant, and his wife, Gerda Lois Brown, née Grenside (1885–1961), an artist. She earned a bachelor's degree and PhD from Royal Holloway, University of London. Career In 1956, she started her career, working for the Nature Conservancy (later part of the Natural Environment Research Council) as a mycologist at Merlewood, Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire. This later became the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology.