Anne Wilmot-Horton
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Anne Beatrix Wilmot-Horton was an English amateur botanist who was the dedicatee of the plant genus Hortonia and of Lord Byron’s poem 'She Walks in Beauty'.
Hortonia, a genus of flowering plant endemic to Sri Lanka, is named for Anne Wilmot-Horton.
She Walks in Beauty
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She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes Thus mellow'd to that tender light Which heaven to gaud
Anne Wilmot-Horton
…Wilmot-Horton (née Horton, 1788 – 1871) was an English amateur botanist who was the dedicatee of the plant genus Hortonia and of Lord Byron’s poem 'She Walks in Beauty'. She was born in 1788, the daughter of Eusebius Horton of Catton Hall, Derbyshire, and was co-heir to the estate with her sister Frances…
Title page of the first edition of Hebrew Melodies, the first publication of the poem (May 1815)