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Last Name Pelloe

Given Name Emily Harriet °

alt. Names E. H. P. ; Emily Sims ;

Marriage banker Theodore Parker Pelloe at St George's Cathedral, Perth, in 1902 ;

Children none

Year born 1877 (or 1878?) in St Kilda, Melbourne

Year died 1941

Place of death at Watermans Bay near Perth (while riding a horse)

Father's occupation John Samuel Sims Sundercombe, bootmaker and merchant from Jersey, and his Victorian-born wife Sarah Elizabeth, née Heard

Relatives younger sister ;

Education at South Yarra private school; studies of botany since 1916

Country of Activity Australia

Worked for botanist and state gardener Charles Austin Gardner (1896-1790): Wild Flowers (1936) ; Pelloe: Wildflowers of Western Australia, Melbourne (1921, with pen sketches & 8 color plates) & West Australian Orchids (Perth 1930, with 12 drawings and 3 color plates) ;

Patronage 'The Western Australian' magazine; Western Australian Naturalists' Club (member)

Collaborators C. A. Gardener in 1939 for a brochure for the Western Australian Government Tourist Bureau ; botanical illustrator -> Frederica Lucy (Rica) Erickson (1908-2009) ;

Techniques botanical and landscape watercolour ;

Sample(s) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Caladenia.PlateI.jpg ; https://www.anbg.gov.au/gallery/corymbia-ficifolia-pelloe.html ;

Archival sources University of Western Australia ; http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/pelloe-emily-harriet-8012 ; https://www.anbg.gov.au/biography/pelloe-emily.html ;

Published sources Noel Stewart: E. H. P., in: Australian Dictionary of Biography 11 (1988), online since 2012 ;

other Worked in Perth, WA.

Further sample: https://www.anbg.gov.au/gallery/caladenia-mixed-pelloe.html .

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