Mary Maytham Kidd, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Mary Maytham Kidd

South African botanical illustrator

Date of Birth: 24-Jan-1914

Date of Death: 08-Apr-2001

Profession: botanical collector, botanical illustrator

Nationality: South Africa

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Mary Maytham Kidd

  • Mary Maytham Kidd born Mary Catherine Maytham (24 January 1914 – 8 April 2001 East London, Cape Province), daughter of Albert Archibald Maytham, was a South African botanical artist.Born in East London, she was educated at Roedean School in Johannesburg between 1927 and 1930 and, between 1931 and 1933, studied at the Sorbonne in Paris.
  • She also trained at the Royal Academy School in London from 1936 to 1938.Kidd wrote and illustrated "Wild Flowers of the Cape Peninsula" (Cape Town 1950 - foreword by J.
  • C.
  • Smuts), two books on South African poisonous and edible fungi by Edith L.
  • Stephens (Longmans, Cape Town 1953) and illustrated a series of booklets on protected wild flowers for the Cape Province Nature Conservation Department.
  • Her 1950 work, "Wild Flowers of the Cape Peninsula", was recently republished as "Wild Flowers of the Table Mountain National Park", by the Botanical Society of South Africa.
  • She also created designs for porcelain, Christmas cards and calendars. The University of Cape Town archives acquired her sketchbooks, diaries and other documents after her death.
  • They show that she undertook a 1936 canoe trip down the Danube and visited Nyasaland and the Zomba Plateau in 1943.
  • Much later in 1973/74, she spent some time in Suffolk. She married Hubert John Kidd (1896-1963), headmaster of the Diocesan College of Bishops in Rondebosch, on 28 May 1948.
  • They adopted a child, Charles James Anthony Kidd (1942-2005).
  • Mary died of congestive cardiac failure on 8 April 2001 in Maitland, Cape Town.

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