| AdminHistory | Agnes Ibbetson (1757–1823), was an English plant physiologist.
Ibbetson was born in London in 1757 to Andrew Thomson Esq., of Roehampton, a London merchant, and was educated at home. In 1783 she married a barrister, James Ibbetson, the son of the Rev. James Ibbetson. James Ibbetson died in 1790 leaving Agnes a widow. She later moved to Devon where she remained for the rest of her life. Ibbetson was a keen botanist and made extensive use of microscopes, plant dissection, and other technology to pursue her studies. She began publishing her plant physiology in her fifties and between 1809 and 1822 she contributed more than fifty papers to 'Nicholson's Journal' and 'the Philosophical Magazine' on the microscopic structure and physiology of plants. She died in 1823. |