British botanist.
Pat Wolseley (born 1938) is a British botanist and illustrator, specialising in lichen. Patricia Anne Wolsely studied botany at Somerville College, Oxford and then was employed at the Natural History Museum, London from 1960. She had always made illustrations of her research and later attended an art school. From 1966 until 1977 she worked at the University of Malta then returning to the Natural History Museum in London first as a Leverhulme Research Fellow and then as a Scientific Associate. Wolseley studied aquatic plants for a decade and then moved on to lichens. This change was prompted by