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Major and Mrs Knox Finlay became the owners of Keillour Castle in Perthshire in 1938, and after the Second World War began in earnest to develop the gardens there, growing rhododendrons, magnolias and many other trees and shrubs. Mary Knox Finlay became an expert on liliaceous plants, and grew large collections of liliums, nomocharis, notholirium, etc, but her greatest love was meconopsis.
From 'The Rock Garden', Journal of the Scottish Rock Garden Club, v20, p.477

1955-1961 - B.Sc. (Hons) in Botany at University College London
1961-1962 - M.Sc. in Biochemistry at University College London
1962-1965 - Ph.D. in Plant Biochemistry at Jesus College, Cambridge
1965-1966 - 1 year Overseas Research Fellowship (Ministry of Overseas Development) at Tea Research Station, Mlanje (now Mulanje), Malawi
1967-1970 - 3 years within International Biological Programme (IBP) with the U.K. Nature Conservancy working on Productivity of Native Ecosystems, at Moor House Field Station, Cumberland
1971-2001 - U.K. Forestry Commission working on Biochemical and Molecular analysis of native and introduced forest trees.