Gillian Bollard

Gillian Bollard (1932 – 2017) was born Gillian Askwith on 3 February in Ramsgate, Kent, an only child. She attended Swanley Horticultural College but left to get married. She married husband David in 1952 and they had three children: Diane, Sheila, and Alan. Gillian loved cats, pottery, and gardening, regularly winning the Royal Horticultural Society Banksian medal.