Spry, Constance (1886–1960)

English flower arranger and cookery writer. Working with flowers from the 1920s, she opened flower shops, and became chairman of the Constance Spry Flower School. She became joint principal of the Cordon Bleu Cookery School, London, and the ‘finishing school’ at Winkfield, Berkshire, and also wrote The Constance Spry Cookbook (1956)

Her flower arranging manuals include How to do the Flowers, Simple Flowers, and Favourite Flowers. Always an excellent organizer, she was adviser to the Ministry of Works on flower decoration for the coronation of Elizabeth II.

Spry was born in Derby, and educated in Ireland. She returned to England during World War I, and became a welfare worker in London's East End.