Osborn, Edith May   (née Kershaw)   (1887 - 1958)

She had a MSc from Manchester University, UK, specialising in phycology.

In 1912, in England, she married Theodore George Bentley Osborn, shortly after he was appointed first professor of botany, vegetable pathology and parasitology at the University of Adelaide, South Australia.

Collaborating with her husband Theodore, she helped to establish a Botany department in Adelaide, and held the Chair of Botany in 1912 and 1920. She was the first woman to be appointed a Governor of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens in 1916.

She was the Chair of the Australian Branch of the International Federation of University Women from 1935 to 1937, and the botanical member of Lord Florey`s team in the development of penicillin at Oxford, England, from 1943 to 1949.

She is commemorated with a stained glass window in St Mark's College, Adelaide (46 Pennington Terrace), SA.

Source: Extracted from:
https://monumentaustralia.org.au/themes/people/science/display/118662-edith-osborn
https://www.nature.com/articles/244377a0.pdf
https://connect.adelaide.edu.au/nodes/view/25461
Portrait Photo: extracted from - https://collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B%2078566/3
"Botanising in Belair National Park. - Professor T.G.B. Osborn and Edith May Osborn" [B 78566/3]