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She was born Gabrielle Louise Caroline Matthaei, one of three daughters of a German, French and Swiss family. Gabrielle studied Natural Sciences at Newnham College 1895-99 and became a Fellow. She married Albert Howard in 1905. In 1913 she was appointed second imperial botanist to the government of India. With her husband, she established the Institute of Plant Industry at Indore in 1924. Published nearly 150 papers and monographs on agricultural and botanical subjects, mostly in collaboration with Albert Howard.

She was born Louise Ernestine Matthaei, one of three daughters of a German, French and Swiss family. She studied Classics at Newnham College 1900-5 and became a Fellow. She served as chief of the agricultural section of the International Labour Organization from 1924. Following her marriage to Albert Howard in 1931 she became an advocate of organic husbandry. After his death she co-founded the Albert Howard Foundation, which in 1953 merged with the Soil Association of which she became honorary life vice-president.

Editor of the Guild gardener, the magazine of the National Gardens Guild.

Newspaper journalist, and later documentary film director, Grafton Green was employed by the Ministry of Information during the Second World War as overseas features editor in the Publications Division.