Arabella Elizabeth Roupell

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**Arabella Elizabeth Roupell** (ubochí irí abụọ na àtó n'ọnwa Machị 1817 Newport, Shropshire rụo ụbọchị irí àtó nà otu n'ọnwa Julaị 1914 Swallowfield, Berkshire) bụ ónyé England na-ese okooko osisi, nke a maara màkà ihe osise okooko osisi a na-amaghị aha ya bipụtara na 1849 n'okpuru aha 'Specimens of the flora of South Africa by a Lady.'

Roupell bụ nwa nwanyị Rev. John Dryden Piggott, rector na squire nke Edgmond, lụrụ Thomas Boone Roupell, ónyé ọrụ East India Company, na 16 Septemba 1840. N'afọ 1843, obéré ógè ka amuchara nwa ya nwoke nke okenye, e zigara di ya na Cape màkà oge ezumike ọrụ ma ọ họọrọ iso ya.

N'oge ọ nọrọ afọ abụọ na South Africa, Roupell sere okooko osisi ọbọdọ ahụ. Ónyé nleta na Cape, Nathaniel Wallich, onye na-elekọta Calcutta Botanical Garden n'oge ahụ, na ónyé ọbịa n'otu họtel Cape Town dị ka Roupells, nwere mmasị n'ọrụ ya. Wallich sonyeere Roupell na njem nchịkọta gaa n'ime ime Ọbọdọ Cape, ma kọwaara ezinụlọ ya ndị enyi ya Thomas Maclear, Cape Astronomer Royal, na nwunye ya Mary, na-eduga na ọbụbụenyi na-adịgide adịgide n'etiti ụmụ nwanyị ahụ. N'etiti ndị ọzọ Roupell mere enyi bụ Baron von Ludwig, ónyé na-eme atụmatụ na ónyé na-emepụta ogige botanical na Cape Town, na ónyé na'anakọta osisi Kew, James Bowie.

Roupells laghachiri Madras na 1845 ebe Arabella Roupell gàrà n'ihu na-ese ihe osise ya. Mgbè Wallich lara ezumike nká na London site na Calcutta na 1846, ọ gwara ya ka o kwe ka ọ were ụfọdụ ihe osise ya gosi Sir William Jackson Hooker. Hooker nwere obi ụtọ n'ọrụ ya ma ya na nwanne di Arabella, George Roupell, họọrọ iri n'ime efere màkà mbipụta. N'ịbụ ndị natara ngọzi nke Hooker na Wallich, e nyere ónyé a ma ama na-ede akwụkwọ Victorian, Paul Gauci, nke kwadebere ihe osise màkà ónyé na-ebi akwụkwọ W. Nicol nke Shakespeare Press na Pall Mall. William Henry Harvey, ónyé Irish botanist nyere ederede nkọwa na-esote efere ndị ahụ. E depụtara otu narị ndị debanyere aha, akụkụ dị ukwuu sitere na Peerage, ma ghara ịgụ Victoria, Prince Albert na ndị nduzi nke East India Company. [1] A nabatara akwụkwọ ahụ nke ọma ọ bụghị naanị na England, kamakwa na Kọntinent, ebe a họpụtara ónyé édémédé ahụ dịka ónyé otu Regensburg Society of Arts. A raara ọrụ ahụ nye Wallich iji kwado 'mgbalị na nduzi sayensị' ya na 'mmetụta ọ bụla nke ekele na mmetụta ịhụnanya.' A na-eche na e bipụtara naanị otu narị na iri nke atlas folio, na-eme ka ọrụ ahụ dị ụkọ, dị oke ọnụ ma bụrụ ihe ndị na-anakọta ihe na-achọsi ike.

E wepụrụ ụlọ ọrụ East India na 1858 mgbè Roupells lara ezumike nká na Loddar Court dị nso na Reading na Berkshire. Ka ọ na-erule n'oge a, ezinụlọ ahụ nwere ego, ebe a kwalitere Thomas ka ọ bụrụ ónyé ọka ikpe mgbè ọ nọ na India, ma buru ụzọ ziga ya na Coimbatore ma mesịa gaa Cuddalore. Roupell malitere ọrụ ubi ma nọrọ akụkụ nke afọ ọ bụla na Sundorne Castle, ihe nketa nna ya na Shropshire.

Otu narị ma ọ bụ karịa efere ndị a na-ebipụtaghị na 1930s site na Elizabeth Chute Roupell, nwanyị di ya nwụrụ nke Norton Aylmer Roupell. Ha agafeela n'aka George Roupell, nwá nwà nkè ónyé na-ese ihe na nwa nwanne Elizabeth Chute Roupell. Akwụkwọ ozi a na-ezighachi ugboro ugboro sitere n'aka nwanne nne ya na nke sitere na Pretoria enweghị azịza site na George na okwu ahụ yiri ka ọ nweghị ebe ọ bụla. N'ime mmepe dị ịtụnanya, ngwugwu si England rutere Irene màkà General Jan Smuts n'oge ọrịa ikpeazụ ya. Akụkụ ahụ nọgidere na-emeghe ruo mgbe Smuts nwụsịrị na 1950 mgbè e nyefere ya Illtyd Pole-Evans, onye na 1930 sonyeere John Hutchinson na Jan Smuts na njem botanising ọnwa abụọ site na Southern na Northern Rhodesia gaa Nyasaland na Lake Tanganyika. Pole Evans nyere Mary Gunn, ónyé na-ahụ màkà ọbá akwụkwọ na Botanical Research Institute, ihe osise ahụ, onye ghọtara ha ozugbo dị ka nchịkọta a na-achọ kemgbe.  Mgbè egosiri ya na ngosi e mèrè na Johannesburg Public Library na Nọvemba 1951, ezinụlọ Smuts nyere ihe osise ahụ na Mahadum Cape Town, nke gafere ha n'ọbá akwụkwọ nke Bolus Herbarium. E bipụtara iri na otu n'ime efere ndị sitere na nchịkọta a n'okpuru aha 'More Cape Flowers by a Lady' na 1964, ebe otu efere ahụ, na mgbakwunye nke abụọ ọzọ na ihe akụkọ ndụ, pụtara n'okpuru isiokwu 'Arabella Roupell' na 1975. Ihe osise nke Cape *Erica*, nke e nyere Lady d'Urban, nwunye Sir Benjamin d'Urb, bụ nke Museum Africa dị na Johannesburg ugbu a.

*Protea roupelliae* na-echeta Roupell, nke ónyé na-ahụ màkà ihe ọkụkụ na Switzerland bụ Carl Meissner kpọrọ aha. *Roupellia grata* nke na-adịru nwa ógè, a flowering creeper si Sierra Leone na aha ya iji sọpụrụ ndị otu Roupell dị iche iche, bụ nke ónyé France na-ahụ màkà ihe ọkụkụ Henri Ernest Baillon kpọrọ *Strophanthus gratus*. [1]

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## Njikọ mpụga

* Biography of Arabella Elizabeth Roupell at the S2A3 Biographical Database of Southern African Science