Career
He was the eldest son the Review James Ibbetson Doctor of Divinity, rector of Bushey and Archdeacon of Saint Albans. James, junior, was a barrister and amateur antiquary who had been admitted to Lincoln"s Inn in 1771, but he died in 1790 aged 35 leaving Anges as young widow.
Sometime after James"s death she moved to Devon where she lived for the rest of her life.
She died in February 1823 in Exmouth, aged 66. Between 1809 and 1822 Mistress
Ibbetson contributed more than fifty papers to Nicholson"s Journal and the Philosophical Magazine on the microscopic structure and physiology of plants, including such subjects as air-vessels, pollen, perspiration, sleep, winter-buds, grafting, impregnation, germination, and the Jussieuean method. In the botanical department of the British Museum are preserved some specimens of woods and microscopic slides prepared by her, with a manuscript description stating that they represent twenty-four years" work, and illustrating her erroneous belief that buds originate endogenously and force their way outward.
The leguminous genus Ibbetsonia was dedicated to her by John Sims, but is now considered identical with the Cyclopia of Ventenat.
