With great sadness we report the death of Enid Hyde. She died, aged 77 years, on 5th September 2002 and was buried at Woolverstone Church on 18th September.
She was elected Rivis Vice-President on 29th April 1995. The tribute below was written by Francis Simpson and appeared in White Admiral 31, Summer 1995. A full obituary will be in the next edition of SNS Transactions.
“Enid Hyde came to Suffolk in 1958 with her husband, Mr LJ Hyde and settled in Woolverstone. She joined the Society in 1964, her main interest being botany, especially the Suffolk flora. It was due to her help and encouragement that I was able to see the publication of my Flora of Suffolk in 1982. Her accuracy in reading and correcting proofs has become well-known. The Society thanks her for advice and proof-reading of its publications: The Butterflies of Suffolk, The Orchids of Suffolk, The Land and Freshwater Molluscs of Suffolk and Simpson’s Flora of Suffolk.
Every year since 1979, she and I have together compiled a list of Recent Suffolk Plant Records for Suffolk Natural History. In addition she has been the author of several interesting and important articles and been the general recorder for flowering plants and ferns. She also compiled the botanical section of the index for Vols 18- 26 of Suffolk Natural History.
From 1981-94 Enid Hyde was a recorder for the Botanical Society of the British Isles, working especially hard for the Suffolk section of their monitoring scheme 1987-88 and, more recently, for the survey of Suffolk records for Scarce Species in Britain, published in 1994 by the Joint Nature Conservation Committee.
Mrs Hyde is very keen on the conservation of the Suffolk countryside and looks after a Woolverstone roadside verge for the colony of Orpine (Sedum telephium) which I photographed for the Flora.” (Francis Simpson)
Enid, as county recorder contributed thousands of records to the New Atlas of the British and Irish Flora which was published shortly after her death and is reviewed in this Newsletter.
We thank her for everything she did.
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