Frances Margaret Leighton
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Frances Margaret Leighton was a South African botanist and educator. After graduating from Rhodes University with her M.Sc degree in 1931, she worked at the Bolus Herbarium until 1947. Her primary res
Prof. William Edwyn Isaac during his Kenya days
Glynn Isaac
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Glynn Llywelyn Isaac was a South African archaeologist who specialised in the very early prehistory of Africa, and was one of twin sons born to botanists William Edwyn Isaac and Frances Margaret Leigh
Frances Margaret Leighton
…and delivered his inaugural lecture, "Plants of the Sea", before the University of Cape Town in April 1955. The couple had three children - Rhys and Glynn, twin sons born in 1937, and a daughter in 1948. Rhys won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for History for his book "The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790…
Isaac (right) with J. Desmond Clark in 1967