Elsie Mary Griffin [SEP] date of death
Elsie Mary Griffin
Elsie Mary Griffin (1 November 1884–3 May 1968) was a New Zealand botany teacher and community organisation administrator. She was born in Lawrence, South Otago, New Zealand on 1 November 1884.
Biography.
Elsie Mary Griffin was married to Cornelius Griffin, and he was a Wesleyan minister. The Griffins moved to Auckland province when she was 16 years old. Elsie Griffin had attended the Methodist Prince Albert College in Queen Street, Auckland, and in the year 1906, she was awarded an MA
) was the first New Zealand woman to win an 1851 Scholarship for study at the University of London where she was awarded a DSc in 1919. A mycologist at the Cawthorn Institute in Nelson, she was the first female fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. Other students who distinguishing themselves included Elsie Mary Griffin, MA (1906), subsequently a key figure in the YWCA in both New Zealand and Australia. Writing to Thomas in 1912, Griffin observed that while he might think her 'a horrid "suffragette"