Davies, Olive Blanche (1884 - 1976)

Born 27 October 1884 Toorak, Victoria; died Oct 1976 (aged 91-92) in South Australia.
(buried in Cheltenham Pioneer Cemetery Cheltenham, Bayside City, Victoria as Olive Blanche Davies Rossiter).

Botanist and botanical illustrator.

Provided some illustration to A.J.Ewart and O.B.Davies, The Flora of the Northern Territory (1917).

Olive was born Toorak, Victoria, the youngest of six children of Elizabeth Locke Mercer and Sir Matthew Henry Davies (1850-1912) of Geelong.

She had an MSc from Melbourne University.

She was a government research scholar studying biology at Melbourne University, and wrote papers in 1911 and 1914 on moluscs.

On 22 December 1915 at 'Cluden', in Brighton, Australia, Olive Blanche Davies married Arthur Lyle Rossiter (1888-1954), a lieutenant in WW1.

Source: extracted from:
H.Hewson Australia - 300 Years of Botanical Illustration (1999)
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/124100353/olive-blanche-rossiter