| Authorised form of name | Manton; Irene (1904 - 1988) |
| Dates | 1904 - 1988 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | 1 Earls Court Square, Kensington, London, England |
| Date of birth | 17/04/1904 |
| Place of death | Chapel Allerton Hospital, Leeds |
| Date of death | 31/05/1988 |
| Research field | Botany |
| Cytology |
| Activity | Education:
Froebel Educational Institute, Kensington; St Paul's Girls' School, Hammersmith; Girton College, Cambridge (Natural Sciences tripos 1925 and 1926); PhD (1930)
Career:
Postgraduate work in the laboratory of Otto Rosenberg, in Sweden; Assistant Lecturer in Botany, Manchester University (1929) where she became interested in ferns; published 'Problems of cytology and evolution in the Pteridophyta' (1950); Professor of Botany, Leeds University (1946-1969); retired (1969); Honorary Fellow, Girton College (1985); bequeathed her collection of modern paintings to Leeds University
Memberships:
Pteridological Society (President 1971-1972); FLS (President 1973-1976); Foreign member Royal Danish Academy of Arts and Sciences
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 16/03/1961 |
| Age at election | 56 |
| Relationships | Daughter of George Sidney Frederick Manton, dental surgeon of London, and his wife, Milana Andele Terese d'Humy; sister of Sidnie Milana Manton (FRS 1961); unmarried; family descended from Charles Manton, chaplain to Charles II |
| Sources | Sources:
DNB
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1990 vol 35 pp 247-261, plate, by R D Preston |
| Royal Society code | NA5960 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| HWT/29/2/1 | Correspondence and papers regarding visits and exchanges to Mongolia | 1966 |
| IM/002968 | Manton, Irene | nd |
| EC/1961/16 | Manton, Irene: certificate of election to the Royal Society | 16 March 1961 |
| RR/54/37 | Referee's report by Reginald Ruggles Gates, on a paper 'Some new evidence on the physical nature of plant nuclei from intra-specific polyploids' by Irene Manton | July 1935 |
| IM/002969 | Manton, Irene | 1995 |
| RR/65/173 | Referee's report by Reginald Ruggles Gates, on a paper 'Evidence on spiral structure and chromosome pairing in osmunda regalis L' by Irene Manton | December 1938 |
| RR/65/174 | Referee's report by John Desmond Bernal, on a paper 'Evidence on spiral structure and chromosome pairing in osmunda regalis L' by Irene Manton | 1938 |