husband left Burma. The Wheeler-Cuffes returned to Europe, and settled in the Cuffe family home at Leyrath, outside Kilkenny, Ireland. She died at Leyrath on 8 March 1967, just 11 weeks short of her one hundredth birthday Publication While in Burma she produced The Burma alphabet, a book illustrated by her watercolours. This was sold at five rupees a copy to raise funds for a new hospital, the Queen Alexandra's Children's Hospital, in Mandalay. Legacy Wheeler-Cuffe instructed that her watercolours of Burmese orchids and other plants should remain "indefinitely" in the National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin. Later, her correspondence with her mother and Polly Prochazka was also deposited there by Captain Anthony Tupper, as well as a number of her sketchbooks. However, watercolours (landscapes of Ireland and Burma) and miscellaneous other items were sold when the contents of Leyrath were auctioned in September 1993, and so are widely scattered. See also List of Irish botanical illustrators List of Irish plant collectors Patricia Butler, Irish Botanical Illustrators, Antique Collectors Club, London 2000 References External links Frank Kingdon Ward, commissioned drawing National Botanic Gardens Art Collection 1867 births 1967 deaths 19th-century Irish painters 19th-century Irish women 20th-century Irish painters 20th-century Irish women Botanical illustrators Irish gardeners People of British Burma Wives of baronets People from Wimbledon, London People from County Kilkenny