Margaret Fountaine, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Margaret Fountaine

British entomologist, scientific illustrator and diarist

Date of Birth: 16-May-1862

Place of Birth: Norwich, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 21-Apr-1940

Profession: lepidopterist, illustrator, biologist, collector, diarist, scientific illustrator

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Margaret Elizabeth Fountaine (16 May 1862 - 21 April 1940), was a Victorian lepidopterist who published in The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation.
She is also known for her personal diaries, which were edited into two volumes by W.
F.
Cater for the popular market and published posthumously. She was an accomplished natural history illustrator and had a great love and knowledge of butterflies, travelling and collecting extensively through Europe, South Africa, India, Tibet, America, Australia and the West Indies, publishing numerous papers on her work.
She raised many of the butterflies from eggs or caterpillars, producing specimens of great quality, 22,000 of which are housed at the Norwich Castle Museum and known as the Fountaine-Neimy Collection.
Her four sketch books of butterfly life-cycles are held at the Natural History Museum in London.
The butterfly genus Fountainea was named in her honour.