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Gigi Crompton (Irmingard Emma Antonia Richter) was born on 16 April, 1922 in Feldafing, Germany, is a US-British art conservator and botanist (1922–2020). Discover Gigi Crompton's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 98 years old?

Popular As Irmingard Emma Antonia Richter
Occupation art curator; botanist
Age 98 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 16 April, 1922
Birthday 16 April
Birthplace Feldafing, Germany
Date of death 2020
Died Place Swaffham Bulbeck, UK
Nationality Germany

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1538

She later became involved with botany and plant conservation and compiled the Catalogue of Cambridgeshire Flora Records since 1538.

She worked with historic records, books, card indices and personal papers to compile information about the plants found in Cambridgeshire in an accessible form, which led to the Catalogue of Cambridgeshire Flora Records since 1538.

The presence of the University of Cambridge and early plant taxonomists such as seventeenth century John Ray means that there is a greater depth of information for this county than others.

1922

Gigi Crompton (1922-2020) was an American-British art conservator, botanist and author.

She restored paintings for the Fogg Museum at Harvard in the USA and National and Walker art galleries in Britain.

Irmingard Emma Antonia Richter was born on 16 April 1922 in Feldafing near Munich in Germany.

Her parents were an American art historian and dealer Georg Richter and German aristocrat Amalie (née Baroness Zündt von Kenzingen).

She was initially an American citizen and later a naturalised British citizen.

1924

The family moved to Italy in 1924 and then to Britain in 1929.

While in the UK she attended Hayes Court boarding school in Kent and then the Westminster School of Art in London, followed by a short time studying art in Berlin.

1939

In 1939 she moved with her parents to the USA, where she trained in art conservation at the Brooklyn Museum and then worked at the Fogg Museum.

1945

In 1945 she returned to London and remained in the UK for the rest of her life.

She was part of an artistic circle in London, knowing people such as Henry Moore.

She had an affair with the artist Roland Penrose between 1945 and his marriage to Lee Miller in 1947.

Following her training in New York, she moved to London in 1945 and began working in art restoration.

She also wrote about art for magazines such as Art in America.

1946

In 1946 Penrose gave her his painting Le Grand Jour.

1947

In 1947-1948 she was employed on artworks of the National Gallery in London and between 1958 and 1962 part-time at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool.

She became interested in plants and gardening, especially the history of plant distributions.

She studied through attending lectures at the University of Cambridge, communication with Max Walters, then Curator of the University of Cambridge Herbarium, and gardening staff on the estate where she lived.

She was employed to assist Max Walters for a short time on a monograph about the genus Silene and learnt how to use herbaria, specialist books and plant records.

1949

In 1949 she married an American town planner, David “Buzzy” Crompton (died 2007).

1952

They lived in Liverpool while her husband was a lecturer at the University of Liverpool's Department of Civic Design and from 1952 on his sister's estate at Thriplow, Cambridgeshire.

1955

By around 1955 she had become a field botanist and was recording plant distributions in her local area.

1956

She was a founding member of the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire Wildlife Trust in 1956 and had a role in its organisation for many years.

1959

Crompton was the author or co-author of several botanical publications from 1959 onwards about the Thriplow estate, the Breckland, especially Lakenheath Warren and the flora of Devil’s Dyke and Wicken Fen, all in East Anglia, as well as a book about the Cambridgeshire flora.

These included:

1964

This was purchased from her in 1964 by the Tate Gallery for its collection.

1965

In 1965 they moved to Swaffham Bulbeck.

1972

From 1972 until 1986 she worked on the Eastern England Rare Plant survey for the Nature Conservancy Council, including developing what has now become the standard method for surveys of rare plants.

From 1972 to 2002 she was the BSBI Recorder for Cambridgeshire.

She was involved in long-term monitoring of a local population of lizard orchids, a rare plant in the UK, as well as other plants in the Devil's Dyke, Cambridgeshire Site of Special Scientific Interest.

2001

The catalogue was published in two printed volumes in 2001 and 2004 and subsequently made into an on-line searchable version.

Crompton also became a member of the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland.

2011

In 2011 Crompton was made an honorary member of the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland.

2020

She died at home on 12 January 2020.