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Sep 30, 1859 Gdańsk, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland Died on 01 Jan 1938 (aged 78)
(1859-1938) botanist and teacher
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About Sarah Hynes
- Sarah (Sally) Hynes MBE (30 September 1859 – 27 May 1938) was a Polish-born, Australian botanist and teacher. Sarah (Sally) Hynes was born on 30 September 1859 in Danzig, Prussia (now Gdansk, Poland) to William John Hynes (1831–1909), a master mariner and his wife Eliza Bell.
- Sarah was educated at Edinburgh Ladies' College, Upton House in St John's Wood, London, and at Chichester College in Sussex.
- She earned a botanical certificate from South Kensington Museum, Science and Art Department.Hynes came to Sydney around 1884 when her father took a job as managing director of the Australasian Steam Navigation Company.
- She took a course of study at the University of Sydney taking a B.A.
- in 1891.
- She studied the sciences, and majored in botany.
- Hynes was the first woman to be appointed to the Linnean Society of New South Wales, in 1891.
- She was also active on the fund-raising committee which was working toward the construction of the university’s Women's College.
