Mardi
Tempest
Mrs Margaret Irene Tempest (Mardi to her friends) died unexpectedly on 3rd October
2001. A long-standing member of the Wild Flower Society, she attended many of
the meetings both in Cornwall and elsewhere. Always keenly interested in both
the naming and the conservation of plants, she became a member of the Penhale
Conservation Committee, a group concerned with the plant and animal life of the
richest complex of |
sand
dunes in the county. She served on one of the branch committees of the Cornwall
Wildlife Trust as both Secretary and Chairman and played an important role in
the recording of plants, contributing much information both for the recently published
Flora of Cornwall and for the forthcoming BSBI Atlas 2000. She was involved right
from the start as a volunteer in the Cornwall's Living Churchyards project and
had in fact surveyed more of Cornwall's churchyards in relation |
to
their flora than anyone else. One of her great pleasures was the search for plants
still in flower for the "Last Week Hunt", her last list being submitted in 1999.
It is not widely known that after her retirement from the nursing profession she
became a Marie-Curie helper - a very needed assistant to the Marie-Curie nurses.
She will be sadly missed by this special group and also by her botanical friends
and her family, to whom we offer much sympathy.
Rose Murphy |
