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About Emma Colebrooke
Emma Bennet, Countess of Tankerville born Emma Colebrooke was a British heiress, art patron and botanist. Lady Tankerville's collection of botanical illustrations are held at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Phaius tankerville was named in her honour by Sir Joseph Banks because she was the first person to make it flower successfully in England.
Everything about Emma Colebrooke →- Occupation
- patron of the arts, botanist, collector, aristocrat
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- 1752
- Died
- November 20, 1836