Personal life and legacy
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After marriage, Molony lived on a farm near [[Nakuru]], and continued collecting plants for the Corydon herbarium.<ref name=":0" /> |
After marriage, Molony lived on a farm near [[Nakuru]], and continued collecting plants for the Corydon herbarium.<ref name=":0" /> |
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==Personal life and legacy== |
==Personal life and legacy== |
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Napier married Desmond Walter Molony in 1935. They had two children, Martin and Merrial. She died from cancer in 1952, at the age of 49.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Milne-Redhead |first=E. |date=1952 |title=Obituary [Evelyn Moloney] |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4109346 |journal=Kew Bulletin |volume=7 |issue=3 |pages=439–439 |issn=0075-5974}}</ref> ''[[Dicliptera|Dicleptera]] napierae''<ref>{{Cite book |url=http://archive.org/details/kew-bulletin_1932_2 |title=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information |date=1932 |others=Internet Archive |pages=50 |language=English}}</ref> and ''[[Bidens]] napierae''<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last=Sherff |first=Earl Edward |url=http://archive.org/details/mobot31753002221403 |title=Botanical leaflets :a series of studies in the systematic botany of miscellaneous dicotyledonous plants |date=1950 |publisher=Chicago. : Earl E. Sherff, |others=Missouri Botanical Garden |pages=14-15, 17-18}}</ref> are two of the East African flower species named in her honor. In the 1950s, the botanical specimens at the Coryndon were consolidated with those of the Amani Herbarium to form the East African Herbarium.<ref name=":2" /> |
Napier married Desmond Walter Molony in 1935. They had two children, Martin and Merrial. She died from cancer in 1952, at the age of 49.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Milne-Redhead |first=E. |date=1952 |title=Obituary [Evelyn Moloney] |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4109346 |journal=Kew Bulletin |volume=7 |issue=3 |pages=439–439 |issn=0075-5974}}</ref> Her husband remarried in 1954.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1954-02-16 |title=Mr. D. W. Molony and Miss V. Jacomb |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-telegraph-mr-d-w-molony-and/176038744/ |access-date=2025-07-06 |work=The Daily Telegraph |pages=6 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> ''[[Dicliptera|Dicleptera]] napierae''<ref>{{Cite book |url=http://archive.org/details/kew-bulletin_1932_2 |title=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information |date=1932 |others=Internet Archive |pages=50 |language=English}}</ref> and ''[[Bidens]] napierae''<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last=Sherff |first=Earl Edward |url=http://archive.org/details/mobot31753002221403 |title=Botanical leaflets :a series of studies in the systematic botany of miscellaneous dicotyledonous plants |date=1950 |publisher=Chicago. : Earl E. Sherff, |others=Missouri Botanical Garden |pages=14-15, 17-18}}</ref> are two of the East African flower species named in her honor. In the 1950s, the botanical specimens at the Coryndon were consolidated with those of the Amani Herbarium to form the East African Herbarium.<ref name=":2" /> |
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==References== |
==References== |