Viscountess Frances Garnet Wolseley

Born in London in 1872, Frances Garnet Wolseley became the 2nd Viscountess Wolseley and built a reputation as a horticulturist, landscape gardener, and author. She was the daughter of the soldier Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley, and is especially remembered for bringing professional garden training within reach of women.

In 1901, she founded the Glynde College for Lady Gardeners in Sussex, a school created to give women solid practical training in horticulture. At a time when this kind of work was rarely treated as a formal profession for women, the school helped open a new path and made her an important figure in the history of gardening education.

She also wrote books on gardening, including works that encouraged careful observation and hands-on skill rather than showiness. She died in 1936, but her name still stands out wherever the history of women in horticulture and garden design is told.