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G. Clarke Nuttall (c.1868–4 May 1929) was a British botanist, journalist and author.

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Career
She is believed to have been one of the first women in Britain to take a B.Sc. degree in botany, although it is not known at which university she studied.

Although the author of many books and papers on natural history, she is most well known for writing the text accompanying H. Essenhigh Corke's photographs in their Wild Flowers as they Grew (1911-1914).

Personal Life
Born Annie Gertrude Clarke in about 1868 in Leicester, England, she was the eldest child of Leicestershire surgeon, Julius St. Thomas Clarke, and his wife Hannah.

In about 1893 she married a fellow Leicester native, Charles Dalley Nuttall. Charles was a general practitioner. There were no recorded children from their marriage.

On the night of the 1911 census Gertrude and Charles were living in St. Albans, Hertfordshire with Gertrude's younger brother, Sydney, and one domestic servant. Charles was then an inmate at the King Edward VII Sanatorium in Midhurst.

After Charles died, she remained a widow until her own death some 16 years later.

During the First World War, she had gone to France with the British Red Cross. Her task was responsibility for the recreation huts, where she also gave lectures. She was mentioned in dispatches for her work.

She died after a long illness on 4 May 1929 at Ivy House, Holywell Hill in St. Albans aged 61. Her effects were estimated at £12,163 1s 11d.