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Dame Helen Charlotte Isabella Gwynne-Vaughan, CBE, DSC, was a prominent British botanist and mycologist. In 1909 she became head of the botany department at Birkbeck. During the First World War she served as Controller of the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps in France, and served as commandant of the Women’s Royal Air Force from 1918 to 1919. In 1921 she became Birkbeck’s first female professor, continuing her studies on fungi genetics. In 1939 she became head of the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force, and returned to Birkbeck in 1941, before retiring as Professor Emeritus in 1944.

Birkbeck, University of London

London

Title

Dame Helen Gwynne-Vaughan, CBE, DSc

Date

c.1910

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 152 x W 112 cm

Accession number

8

Work type

Painting

Birkbeck, University of London

Malet Street, Bloomsbury, London, Greater London WC1E 7HX England

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Artist or maker

Philip Alexius de László

1869–1937

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