This page contains an alphabetical list of clerical naturalists from Richard Abbay to Basil Patras Zula.
There are currently 988 names in the list and more are being added regularly. Each entry includes an individual's name, their dates of birth and death, and a reference to one or more of four key printed sources (Armstrong, Challinor, Desmond, or Kent and Allen).
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Abbay, Richard (1844–1924)
Rector of Earl Soham, Suffolk, FLS, contributed to Linnean Society Botanical Journal
Desmond 1
Abbot, Charles (1761–1817)
Vicar of Oakley Raynes and Goldington, Bedfordshire. Botanist and lepidopterist, author of Flora Bedfordiensis (1798)
CCEd | Herbaria@Home | ODNB | Wikipedia | Desmond 1 | Kent and Allen 78
Abbot, Robert (1560–1618)
Bishop of Salisbury and Master of Balliol College, Oxford. Apparently an 'excellent and diligent herbalist' (Desmond).
ODNB | Wikipedia | Desmond 1
Abbot, Thomas F. (fl. 1910s)
Curate at St. Mary and/or St. Patrick, Limerick, and President of of the Limerick Naturalists Field Club in 1911.
Desmond 1
Acland, Charles Lawford (1833–1903)
Vicar of All Saint's, Cambridge; antiquary and expert on Hebrides who also collected plants in Shetland
Herbaria@Home
Acland, Richard Dyke (1881–1954)
Anglican missionary in India and Bishop of Bombay. Collected plants in Yemen.
Wikipedia | Desmond 2
Adams, Alfred (1865–1919)
Herbaria@Home | Desmond 4 | Kent and Allen 78
Adams, Daniel Charles Octavius (1822–1914)
Ordained but apparently without a parish. Lived in Ansty, Warwickshire. Historian who botanised in Oxfordshire.
Herbaria@Home | Desmond 4 | Kent and Allen 78
Adams, John Herbert (1897–1985)
Rector of Landulph and later Vicar of St Goran, Cornwall, and President of the Royal Institution of Cornwall in 1969-70. Primarily a historian but donated his herbarium to Plymouth Museum.
Herbaria@Home | Kent and Allen 78
Addington, Richard (–2002)
Vicar of Charsfield, Suffolk, botanist and agriculturalist. Gave his name to the Addington Fund.
Armstrong 60, 150
Addison, Frederick (fl. 1870s)
Kent and Allen 79
Ahrendt, Leslie Walter Allen (1903–1969)
Ordained botanist specialising in the Berberidaceae, parish not known.
Desmond 6
Aiken, James John Marshall Lang (1857–1933)
Pastor of Ayton, Berwickshire. Botanised locally, President of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club
Herbaria@Home | Desmond 6 | Kent and Allen 79
Alderson, Christopher (1737–1814)
Rector of Eckington, Derbyshire, and landscape gardener
CCEd | Desmond 8
Alkin, Thomas Verrier (1838–1921)
Desmond 10
Allin, Thomas (1838–1909)
Herbaria@Home | Wikipedia | Desmond 11 | Kent and Allen 80
Alston, Frank Simpson (1863–1931)
Desmond 13 | Kent and Allen 80
Amherst, Elizabeth Frances (c. 1716–1779)
Fossil collector and poet; married to John Thomas, rector of Notgrove, Gloucestershire.
Wikipedia
Amos, Alfred Donald (fl. 1900-1960s)
Apparently botanised in Wales (Desmond)
Desmond 13 | Kent and Allen 81
Armitage, Edward (1822–1906)
Desmond 21
Armstrong, Benjamin (1817–1890)
Armstrong 10
Armstrong, Edward Allworthy (1900–1978)
Vicar of St Mark's, Newnham, Cambridge; author of more than a dozen ornithological studies, a study of birds in Shakespeare, and two theological treatises
ODNB | Wikipedia | Armstrong 3-4, 80-81
Arnold, Frederick Henry (1831–1906)
Desmond 22 | Kent and Allen 82
Ascham, Anthony (c. 1517–1559)
Vicar of Burneston, Yorkshire, astrologer and herbalist, author of A Lytel Herbal (1550)
ODNB | Wikipedia | Desmond 23
Ash, Warren (fl. 1530s)
According to William Turner, 'a little old man whose name is Guarinus Asshe, a canon of Barnwell Priory and well-skilled in herbalism' (in Turner, Libellus de re herbaria novus, 1538). Barnwell is in Cambridgeshire.
Atkinson, Henry Brune (1874–1960)
Atkinson, Henry Dresser (1841–1921)
Desmond 26
Baber, Harry (1817–1892)
Desmond 30 | Kent and Allen 84
Babington, Churchill (1821–1889)
Rector of Cockfield, Suffolk, and author of The Birds of Suffolk (1886)
BHL | Herbaria@Home | ODNB | Wikipedia | Armstrong 55, 76, 100, 117 | Kent and Allen 84
Babington, Joseph (1768–1826)
Desmond 30 | Kent and Allen 84
Backhouse, Arthur (1853–1918)
Possibly a Quaker of the Darlington Backhouse banking dynasty. Propogated daffodils (Narcissi) in Torquay, Devon.
Desmond 30
Backhouse, Charles James (1848–1915)
Quaker horticulturalist from Wolsingham, Co. Durham; one of the Darlington Backhouse banking dynasty. Propogated daffodils (Narcissi).
ODNB | Quakers | Desmond 30
Backhouse, Edward (1781–1860)
Quaker banker from Darlington, Co. Durham and one of the Backhouse banking dynasty; planted many trees at Shull Wood, Wolsingham, Co. Durham.
ODNB | Quakers | Desmond 30
Backhouse, Edward (1808–1879)
Quaker banker from Darlington, active in Sunderland, Co. Durham, one of the Backhouse banking dynasty; botanist, phycologist, and artist. Donated natural history collection to the Sunderland Museum.
ODNB | Quakers | Desmond 30
Backhouse, Elizabeth (fl. 1840s)
Apparently one of the one of the Backhouse banking dynasty; collected Carex in Sunderland, Co. Durham.
Herbaria@Home | Kent and Allen 84
Backhouse, Henry (1849–1936)
Quaker horticulturalist from Darlington, Co. Durham; one of the Darlington Backhouse banking dynasty. Propogated daffodils (Narcissi) in Darlington, later in Bournemouth, Dorset.
ODNB | Quakers | Desmond 31
Backhouse, James (1721–1798)
Quaker banker, moved to Darlington, Co. Durham; the first of many in the Backhouse family to persue interests in botany and horticulture. Kept gardening records.
ODNB | Quakers | Wikipedia | Desmond 31
Backhouse, James (1794–1869)
Quaker from Darlington, Co. Durham; of the Backhouse banking dynasty; nurseryman and botanist in York; missionary Australia, Mauritius, South Africa. Author of Narrative of a Visit to the Australian Colonies (1843) and to Mauritius and South Africa (1844)
BHL | Herbaria@Home | ODNB | Quakers | Wikipedia | Desmond 31 | Kent and Allen 84
Backhouse, James (1825–1890)
Quaker botanist, archaeologist, nurseryman, and geologist, based in York, part of the Backhouse banking dynasty; Author of A monograph of the British Hieracia (1856) and Ferns and Orchids (1857)
BHL | Herbaria@Home | ODNB | Quakers | Wikipedia | Desmond 31 | Kent and Allen 84
Backhouse, James (1861–1945)
Quaker nurseryman from York, one of the Darlington Backhouse banking dynasty. Ornithologist, botanist, and geologist; author of Handbook of European Birds (1890) and Upper Teesdale Past and Present (1896).
BHL | ODNB | Quakers | Desmond 31
Backhouse, Jonathan (1747–1826)
Quaker banker from Darlington, Co. Durham and one of the Backhouse banking dynasty; planted many trees on his estates at Weardale, Co. Durham.
ODNB | Quakers
Backhouse, Jonathan (1779–1842)
Quaker banker from Darlington, Co. Durham and one of the Backhouse banking dynasty; planted many trees on his Co. Durham estate.
ODNB | Quakers | Wikipedia | Desmond 31
Backhouse, Nathan (1788–1805)
Quaker from Darlington, Co. Durham and one of the Backhouse banking dynasty; died young but inspired his brother James Backhouse (1794-1869) to take up botany.
Herbaria@Home | ODNB | Quakers | Desmond 31 | Kent and Allen 84
Backhouse, Robert Ormston (1854–1940)
Quaker horticulturalist from Wolsingham, Co. Durham; one of the Darlington Backhouse banking dynasty, husband of Sarah Elizabeth Dodgson. Propogated daffodils (Narcissi) in Darlington, later in Sutton St Nicholas, Herefordshire.
ODNB | Quakers | Wikipedia | Desmond 31
Backhouse, Sarah Elizabeth (Dodgson) (1857–1921)
Quaker horticulturalist, wife of Robert Ormston Backhouse. Propogated daffodils (Narcissi) in Darlington, later in Sutton St Nicholas, Herefordshire. Rembered for pink daffodil variaty 'Mrs RO Backhouse'.
ODNB | Quakers | Wikipedia | Desmond 211
Backhouse, Thomas (1792–1845)
Quaker from Darlington, Co. Durham and one of the Backhouse banking dynasty; established a nursery at York.
ODNB | Quakers | Desmond 31
Backhouse, William (1779–1844)
Quaker banker from Darlington, Co. Durham and one of the Backhouse banking dynasty; planted 350,000 trees on his estates at Weardale, Co. Durham, and recorded grasses and mosses.
Herbaria@Home | ODNB | Quakers | Desmond 31 | Kent and Allen 84
Backhouse, William (1807–1869)
Quaker banker from Darlington, Co. Durham, one of the Backhouse banking dynasty; botanist, entomologist, and horticulturalist known for daffodils (Narcissus). Founder member of the Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham, and Newcastle upon Tyne
ODNB | Quakers | Desmond 31
Backhouse, William Ormston (1885–1962)
Quaker agriculturalist, botanist, and geneticist from Herefordshire, one of the Darlington Backhouse banking dynasty. Researched wheat, fruit, and pig breeding in Argentina, and daffodils (Narcissi) in England.
ODNB | Quakers | Wikipedia | Desmond 31
Bacon, Roger (c. 1219–c. 1292)
Franciscan friar and philosopher based mainly at Oxford whose numerous writings promote the empirical study of nature.
ODNB | Wikipedia | Armstrong 35-36
Badham, Charles David (1805–1857)
Desmond 32
Bailey, Benjamin (1791–1871)
Desmond 33
Baird, Andrew (1800–1845)
Desmond 35
Baker, Thomas (1785–1866)
Rector of Whitburn, Co. Durham, and plant collector.
Desmond 36
Baker, William Lloyd (1752–1830)
Desmond 37 | Kent and Allen 86
Bale, Sackville Stephens (1753–1836)
Vicar of Withyham and of Chiddingstone, Sussex; botanist and antiquary.
Desmond 37
Banister, John (1650–1692)
Rector of Charles City, Virginia and first university trained naturalist in British North American Colonies. Catalogue of Virginia plants published by John Ray in vol. two of Historia plantarum (1688).
BHL | CCEd | Herbaria@Home | ODNB | Wikipedia | Desmond 41 | Kent and Allen 87
Barclay, Oliver (1919–2013)
Evangelical elder in Leicester and former Church of England lay reader; Cambridge zoologist specialising in animal locomotion.
ODNB | Wikipedia
Barker, John Theodore (1813–1883)
Desmond 44
Baron, Richard (1847–1907)
Desmond 47
Barrington, Shute (1734–1826)
Desmond 49 | Kent and Allen 88
Bartholomaeus Anglicus (c. 1203–1272)
English-born Franciscan monk and scholastic largely based in France and Germany, author of a compendious natural history De proprietatibus rerum.
BHL | ODNB | Wikipedia | Armstrong 36-37 | Desmond 50
Barton, John (1836–1908)
Desmond 51 | Kent and Allen 89
Barton, William (1754–1829)
Desmond 51 | Kent and Allen 89
Bartram, John (1699–1777)
Quaker botanist, the 'father of American botany' and author of several travels through North America. Born Darby, Pennsylvania, co-founder of American Philosophical Society, established botanic garden in Kingsessing near Philadelphia.
BHL | ODNB | Quakers | Wikipedia | Desmond 51
Bartram, William (1739–1823)
Quakers | Wikipedia | Desmond 52
Barty, James Strachan (1805–1875)
Desmond 52
Batchelor, John (1855–1944)
Wikipedia | Desmond 53
Bateman, John (1665–1744)
Ordained, but apparently pursued a secular career including being mayor of Faversham, Kent, four times. His list of Faversham plants in Sloane herbarium and cited in the preface to Edward Jacob's Plantae Favershamiensis (1777).
CCEd | Herbaria@Home | Desmond 53
Bathurst, Ralph (1620–1704)
Dean of Wells Cathedral, Rector of Garsington, Oxfordshire, and Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University. FRS, primarily a phycisian, but some botanising in Oxfordshire.
CCEd | ODNB | Royal Society | Wikipedia | Desmond 54
Beale, John (c. 1608–1683)
Rector of Sock Dennis and Yeovil, Somerset, Chaplain to Charles II, agricultural writer, and FRS. Author of Herefordshire Orchards (1657), Aphorisms concerning cider (1664), and Nurseries, Orchards, Profitable Gardens and Vineyards Encouraged (1677).
CCEd | ODNB | Royal Society | Wikipedia | Desmond 57
Becher, John Thomas (1770–1848)
Desmond 59
Beckerlegge, John Edward (fl. 1930s)
Kent and Allen 90
Beckerlegge, O. (fl. 1860s)
Kent and Allen 91
Bede (c. 672–735)
Monk and historian from Jarrow, Northumbria (now Tyne and Wear); his many writings include De natura rerum (Of the nature of things).
ODNB | Wikipedia | Armstrong 36, 86, 105 | Desmond 62
Beeke, Henry (1751–1837)
Desmond 61 | Kent and Allen 91
Bell, Edward (1829–1904)
Desmond 62
Bell, Thomas Blizard (1815–1866)
Free Church of Scotland Minister, Leswalt, Wigtownshire, and member of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh.
Herbaria@Home | Desmond 63 | Kent and Allen 91
Bennet, William (1763–1805)
Desmond 64
Benson, Charles William (1836–1919)
Benson, Edward White (1829–1896)
Archbishop of Canterbury and member of Botanical Society of Edinburgh
Wikipedia | Desmond 66 | Kent and Allen 93
Benson, Thomas (1802–1887)
Herbaria@Home | Desmond 67 | Kent and Allen 93
Benthall, Charles Francis (1861–1936)
Desmond 67
Berkeley, Miles Joseph (1803–1889)
Wikipedia | Armstrong 5, 51-52, 67 | Desmond 68 | Kent and Allen 93
Bicknell, Clarence (1842–1918)
Desmond 71 | Kent and Allen 94
Bidder, Henry Jardine (1847–1923)
Desmond 71
Bigge, John Frederick (1814–1885)
Desmond 72 | Kent and Allen 94
Bill, J.
Herbaria@Home | Kent and Allen 94
Bindley, Reginald Canning (1845–1937)
Vicar of Mickleover, Derbyshire; collector of mosses
Desmond 73 | Kent and Allen 94
Binfield, Edward (c. 1763–c. 1813)
Desmond 73
Bingley, William (1774–1823)
Desmond 73 | Kent and Allen 94
Binstead, Charles Herbert (1862–1941)
Desmond 73
Bird, Charles Smith (1795–1862)
Desmond 73 | Kent and Allen 95
Bird, Maurice Charles Hilton (1857–1924)
Desmond 74
Birkett, Robert (c. 1806–1851)
Vicar of Kelloe, Co. Durham; plants at Ipswich Museum
Desmond 74 | Kent and Allen 95
Birnie, George (1860–1941)
Desmond 74 | Kent and Allen 95
Biron, Henry Brydges (1835–1915)
Desmond 74
Blackburn, Edward Percy (1862–1940)
Blake, John Frederick (1839–1906)
Challinor 183
Blakiston, Charles Dendy (c. 1848–1908)
Vicar of St Andrew's Church, Exwick, Devon; herbarium at Lancing College, Sussex
Desmond 79 | Kent and Allen 96
Blathwayt, Francis Linley (1875–1953)
Rector of Dyrham, Gloucestershire, and ornithologist. Remembered in Kerry, Trevor, Of Roseates and Rectories: the Birding Biography of the Revd Francis Linley Blathwayt (Lincoln, 2005)
Blatter, Ethelbert (1877–1934)
Desmond 79
Bleasdale, John Ignatius (1822–1884)
Desmond 79
Blomefield, Leonard. See Jenyns, Leonard
Bloomfield, Edwin Newson (1827–1914)
Armstrong 98 | Desmond 80 | Kent and Allen 96
Bloxam, Andrew (1801–1878)
Wikipedia | Desmond 81
Bloxham, Andrew (1801–1878)
Desmond 81 | Kent and Allen 96
Blyth, Edward (1836–1910)
Kent and Allen 96
Bonney, Thomas George (1833–1923)
Armstrong 2, 111, 121, 123, 132-35
Borlase, Anne (1703–1769)
Wife of William Borlase, Rector of Ludgvan, Cornwall. Assisted William in the collection and recording of fossils and minerals (see ODNB entry for W. Borlase).
Borlase, William (1696–1772)
Rector of Ludgvan, and vicar of St. Just, Cornwall, author of The Antiquities of Cornwall (1754), Observations on the Ancient and Present State of the Islands of Scilly (1756), and The Natural History of Cornwall (1758).
BHL | ODNB | Royal Society | Wikipedia | Challinor 183 | Desmond 86
Bosanquet, Edwin (1799–1872)
Vicar of Harston, Cambridgeshire, and author of A Plain and Easy Account of the British Ferns (1854)
Desmond 87
Boscowan, Arthur Townshend (1862–1939)
Rector of Ludgvan, Cornwall, and horticulturalist; promoted anemone as a commercial crop in Cornwall as well as various fruits and vegetables
Wikipedia | Desmond 87
Boscowen, John Townshend (1820–1889)
Desmond 87
Bourne, Stephen Eugene (1846–1907)
Desmond 89
Bower, F. (fl. 1840s)
Kent and Allen 99
Boyden, Henry (1832–1923)
Curacies in Birmingham then Vicar of Pendeen, Cornwall, and later Thorpe Hamlet, Norwich. Collector of seaweed (and other) particularly in the Scilly Isles. Bequeathed plant specimens to Exeter Museum.
Herbaria@Home | Desmond 92 | Kent and Allen 99
Braikenridge, George Weare (1815–1882)
Desmond 95 | Kent and Allen 100
Bransby, John (c. 1783–1857)
Rector of Testerton, Norfolk, and Master of the Free Grammar School, King's Lynn , Norfolk. Member of Botanical Society of London.
Desmond 96
Brecan, A. (fl. 1880s)
Kent and Allen 100
Bree, Robert Francis (1775–1842)
Desmond 97 | Kent and Allen 100
Bree, William (1754–1822)
Desmond 97
Bree, William Thomas (1786–1863)
Desmond 97 | Kent and Allen 100
Bréhaut, Thomas Collings (1820–1880)
Desmond 97
Brenan, Samuel Arthur (1837–1908)
Desmond 98 | Kent and Allen 100
Brewster, Colin (fl. 1900s)
Kent and Allen 101
Brichan, James Brodie (1810–1864)
Scottish minister and antiquary and author of Origines parochiales Scotiae (1851-55). Contributed to Phytologist.
Desmond 98 | Kent and Allen 101
Brodie, Peter Belinger (1815–1897)
Wikipedia | Challinor 184 | Desmond 102 | Kent and Allen 102
Brook, W.
Herbaria@Home | Kent and Allen 102
Brooke, John (1803–1881)
Desmond 103
Brown, Elizabeth Charlotte (1830–1899)
Quaker meteorologist and astronomer from Cirencester, Gloucestershire. Kept lifelong rainfall journal; best-known for work on sunspots.
ODNB | Quakers | Wikipedia
Brown, George (1835–1917)
Desmond 106
Brown, James
Herbaria@Home | Kent and Allen 104
Brown, John Croumbie (1808–1895)
Desmond 107
Brown, Littleton (1699–1749)
Vicar of Kerry, Montgomeryshire. FRS. Botanist with an interest in bryophytes. Accompanied Johann Jacob Dillenius and Samuel Brewer on their tour of Wales.
CCEd | Herbaria@Home | Royal Society | Desmond 107 | Kent and Allen 104
Brown, Thomas (1811–1893)
Desmond 109
Brown, W. MacLean
Herbaria@Home | Kent and Allen 104
Browne, William (c. 1630–1678)
Dean of divinity at Magdalen College, Oxford. Botanist and first recorder of military and monkey orchids in Britain.
CCEd | ODNB | Desmond 110
Browne, William Bevil (1845–1928)
Desmond 111
Brownlee, John (1791–1871)
Desmond 111
Bryant, Alfred Thomas (1865–1953)
Desmond 112
Bryant, Henry (1722–1799)
Rector of Colby and Vicar of Langham, Norfolk; botanist and author of A Particular Enquiry into the Cause of that Disease in Wheat Commonly called Brand (1784)
CCEd | Herbaria@Home | ODNB | Wikipedia | Desmond 112 | Kent and Allen 105
Buchanan, John (1821–1903)
Desmond 113
Buchanan, John (1855–1896)
Desmond 113 | Kent and Allen 105
Buckland, Samuel (1817–1900)
Desmond 114 | Kent and Allen 105
Buckland, William (1784–1856)
Wikipedia | Armstrong 2, 9, 111, 118-20, 128-29 | Challinor 184 | Desmond 114
Buddle, Adam (1662–1715)
Rector of North Fambridge, Essex; botanist and authority on bryophytes who collected specimens for an unpublished complete English flora, now in Sloane herbarium. The Buddleia sometimes thought to be named for him.
CCEd | Herbaria@Home | ODNB | Wikipedia | Desmond 115 | Kent and Allen 106
Bullein, William (c. 1515–1576)
Rector (briefly) of Blaxhall, Suffolk; physician and herbalist; author of Bulleins bulwarke of defe[n]ce againste all sicknes, sornes, and woundes, that dooe daily assaulte mankinde (1562) which contains a vernacular herbal.
ODNB | Wikipedia | Desmond 116
Bullock-Webster, George Russell (1858–1934)
Armstrong 55 | Kent and Allen 106
Bulmer, Charles Henry (1833–1918)
Desmond 117
Bunch, James Robert (c. 1804–1870)
Rector of Emmanuel Church, Loughborough, Leicestershire; herbarium at Leicester University
Desmond 117
Burdo, Christian (fl. 1920s)
Jesuit priest in Jersey
Kent and Allen 106
Burdon, Rowland John (c. 1858–1939)
Herbaria@Home | Desmond 119 | Kent and Allen 107
Burgess, John (1725–1795)
Minister of Kirkmichael, Dumfriesshire; botanist and lichenologist.
Herbaria@Home | Desmond 119 | Kent and Allen 107
Burn, R. (fl. 1880s)
Apparently assisted H.A. Macpherson by examining a whale that beached near Maryport, Cumberland (Armstrong)
Armstrong 92
Burnet, Robert (1823–1889)
Desmond 121
Burnet, Thomas (c. 1635–1715)
Master of Charterhouse, London, and chaplain in ordinary to William III. Theologian whose books on cosmogony, especially Telluris Theoria Sacra (1681), translated as Sacred Theory of the Earth 1684), challenged the biblical account of creation.
ODNB | Wikipedia | Armstrong 125-26
Burnside, Francis Rashleigh (1852–1929)
Rector of Great Stambridge, Essex, who grew roses
Desmond 121
Bury, G.R.L
Herbaria@Home | Kent and Allen 108
Butler, Charles (1560–1647)
Vicar of Wootton St Lawrence, Hampshire; apiarist, considered 'the father of English beekeeping'; author of The Feminine Monarchie, or, A Treatise Concerning Bees (1609), the earliest book-length guide to beekeeping in English.
BHL | CCEd | ODNB | Wikipedia | Armstrong 95-96
Butler, G.
Herbaria@Home | Kent and Allen 108
Butler, Joseph (1692–1752)
Bishop of Durham and, earlier, royal chaplain and rector of St James's, Piccadilly; theologian and author of The Analogy of Religion to the Constitution and Course of Nature (1736)
Herbaria@Home | ODNB | Wikipedia | Armstrong 174 | Kent and Allen 108
Butler, Thomas (1806–1886)
Herbaria@Home | Desmond 124 | Kent and Allen 108
Butt, John Martin (1774–1827)
Desmond 124
Butt, Thomas (1776–1841)
Desmond 124
Butt, Walter (1850–1917)
Desmond 124 | Kent and Allen 108
Calcoensis, Henricus (fl. 1490s)
Apparently a Scottish Benedictine friar who wrote a Synopsis Herbaria and translated Palladius, De Re Rustica, into Gaelic (Desmond).
Desmond 126
Campbell, Alfred John (1858–1931)
Desmond 129 | Kent and Allen 109
Campbell, William (1841–1921)
Missionary in Formosa (Taiwan) where he collected plants
Wikipedia | Desmond 130
Cappella, James Anthony (1858–1943)
Roman Catholic priest and science teacher in Syston, Leicestershire. Taugh science and collected plants.
Herbaria@Home | Desmond 131 | Kent and Allen 110
Carey, Felix (1786–1822)
Desmond 132
Carey, William (1761–1834)
Baptist missionary; founded the botanic gardens at Serampore, India
Wikipedia | Desmond 132
Carpenter, Philip Pearsall (1819–1897)
Kent and Allen 110
Carr, Edmund (1826–1916)
Desmond 134 | Kent and Allen 110
Carr, William (1793–1843)
Desmond 134
Carroll, Henry George (c. 1810–1896)
Vicar of St. Mobhi's, Glasnevin, Dublin; collected plants at The Burren
Desmond 134 | Kent and Allen 110
Carruthers, Andrew (1770–1852)
Wikipedia | Desmond 135
Carter, Thomas Garden (1817–1885)
Desmond 136 | Kent and Allen 111
Caswell, J.
Herbaria@Home | Kent and Allen 111
Chalmers, James B. (1841–1901)
Desmond 140
Chalmers, Thomas (1780–1847)
Wikipedia
Chaloner, John (1788–1831)
CCEd | Armstrong 14
Chaloner, John William (1811–1894)
Armstrong 14, 73, 86
Chapplelow, Leonard (1744–1820)
Armstrong 19
Charge, John (c. 1789–c. 1870)
Rector of Copgrove, Yorkshire, and plant collector
Desmond 142 | Kent and Allen 112
Chavasse, Sidney Edward (c. 1905–c. 1963)
Kent and Allen 112
Cheales, Alan (1828–1911)
Desmond 144
Chevallier, Temple (1794–1873)
Wikipedia | Armstrong 102
Childe, G. (fl. 1840s)
Kent and Allen 113
Childrey, Joshua (1623–1670)
Archdeacon of Salisbury, prebendary of Salisbury Cathedral, rector of Upwey, Dorset. Astronomer, astrologer, meteorologist. Author of Britannia Baconia, or, The Natural Rarities of England, Scotland and Wales (1660)
CCEd | ODNB | Wikipedia | Challinor 185
Clark, Andrew (c. 1856–1922)
Kent and Allen 114
Clarke, Edward Daniel (1769–1822)
Desmond 150 | Kent and Allen 114
Clarke, F.F. (fl. 1830s)
Kent and Allen 114
Clarke, Louisa nee Lane (1812–1883)
Author of novels and works of microscopy, wife of Rev. Thomas Clarke (d. 1864), rector of Woodeaton, Oxfordshire. Moved to Guernsey after his death.
Desmond 150
Clarke, William Branwhite (1798–1878)
Herbaria@Home | Armstrong 157-60 | Desmond 151 | Kent and Allen 114
Clayton, John (c. 1657–1725)
Rector of James City Parish, Jamestown, Virginia, from 1686, rector of Crofton, Yorkshire, and dean of Kildare from 1708; FRS and botanist in Virginia whose work was plagiarised by John Brickell in Natural History of North-Carolina (1737).
Royal Society | Desmond 152
Cleeve, Alexander (1747–1805)
Desmond 152
Clerk, William (fl. 1710s-1730s)
Apparently collected plants in Virginia, Carolina, Antigua, Montserrat, and Bermuda (Desmond)
Desmond 153
Clouston, Charles (1800–1885)
Desmond 154
Clowes, John (1777–1846)
Desmond 155
Clutterbuck, Henry (1809–1883)
Vicar of Kempston, Bedfordshire, and Buckland Dinham, Somerset; botanist who was for several years listed as a local secretary of the Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society. Principally remembered as a cricketer.
CCEd | Herbaria@Home | Wikipedia
Cobbe, Mabel (c. 1850–1936)
Desmond 155 | Kent and Allen 115
Cockayne, Thomas Oswald (1807–1873)
Desmond 156
Codrington, Robert Henry (1830–1922)
Desmond 157
Cole, Robert Eaton George (1831–1921)
Desmond 158 | Kent and Allen 116
Cole, Thomas (c. 1680–1742)
Congregational minister at Gloucester and, briefly, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire; had a herberium which he burned 'in a flight of religious zeal'.
Herbaria@Home | Desmond 158 | Kent and Allen 116
Coleman, William Higgins (1812–1863)
Herbaria@Home | Wikipedia | Desmond 159 | Kent and Allen 116
Colenso, John William (1814–1883)
Desmond 159
Colenso, William (1811–1899)
Desmond 159
Collie, Robert (1839–1892)
Desmond 160
Collins, Edward (–1755)
Vicar of St Erth, Cornwall, who assisted William Borlase in collecting minerals and fossils (see ODNB entry for W. Borlase).
Collins, John Coombes (1798–1867)
Desmond 161 | Kent and Allen 116
Collinson, Peter (1694–1768)
Quaker botanist and horticulturalist. FRS. Kept a garden at Mill Hill, Middlesex, and imported American seeds and knowledge, particularly from Pennsylvania, via Quaker networks.
BHL | Herbaria@Home | ODNB | Quakers | Royal Society | Wikipedia | Desmond 161 | Kent and Allen 116
Compton, Henry (1632–1713)
Bishop of London and Dean of the Chapel Royal; botanist who introduced exotic trees to his garden at Fulham Palace.
ODNB | Wikipedia | Desmond 163
Conybeare, John Josias (1779–1824)
Wikipedia | Armstrong 110, 117, 132
Conybeare, William Daniel (1787–1857)
Wikipedia | Armstrong 117-18, 132 | Challinor 185
Cooke, Philip Henry (1859–1950)
Desmond 166 | Kent and Allen 117
Cooke, Samuel Hay (1818–1877)
Desmond 166 | Kent and Allen 117
Cooper, Oliver St John (1741–1801)
Vicar of Podington, and also Thurleigh, Bedfordshire; contributed to John Nichols's Collections towards History and Antiquities of Bedfordshire (1783)
Desmond 168
Cooper, W.H. Windle (–1929)
Desmond 168
Corbett, Waties (1796–1855)
Desmond 169
Cornewall, George Henry (1833–1908)
Armstrong 55
Cornthwaite, Tullie (1807–1879)
Desmond 170 | Kent and Allen 119
Correia Da Serra, Jose Francisco (1750–1823)
Desmond 170
Cory, C.P. (1859–1940)
Rector of Campsea Ashe, Suffolk
Kent and Allen 119
Cotton, William (1813–1879)
Wikipedia
Covel, John (1638–1722)
Chaplain to the Levant Company in Constantinople then to the Princess of Orange in The Hague; vicar of Littlebury, Essex, and Kegworth, Leicestershire; Vice-chancellor of Oxford University. Collected plants in Turkey and later became an expert on fossils.
ODNB | Wikipedia | Desmond 172
Cowan, William Deans (1844–1924)
Desmond 173
Cowper, Spencer (1713–1774)
Dean of Durham. Kept a nature journal which included weather records
CCEd | ODNB | Wikipedia
Coyte, William Beeston (1740–1810)
Desmond 175
Crabbe, George (1754–1832)
Armstrong 59 | Desmond 175
Crawshaw, A.
Herbaria@Home | Kent and Allen 120
Cresswell, Richard (1815–1882)
Desmond 177 | Kent and Allen 120
Crombie, James Morrison (1830–1906)
Desmond 179
Crombleholme, John (fl. 1890s-1920s)
Priest at St Mary's Roman Catholic church, Clayton le Moors, Lancashire, between 1892-1923 and cultivator of Orchids. Retired to New Zealand.
Desmond 179
Crotch, William Robert (1799–1877)
Desmond 180 | Kent and Allen 121
Crouch, James Frederick (1809–1888)
Desmond 180 | Kent and Allen 121
Crouch, William (1818–1846)
Desmond 180 | Kent and Allen 121
Cruttwell, Norman (1916–1995)
Anglican missionary in New Guinea; expert on tropical orchids
Armstrong 156-57 | Kent and Allen 122
Cullum, John (1733–1785)
Desmond 183 | Kent and Allen 122
Cumming, Joseph George (1812–1868)
Wikipedia | Armstrong 111-12
Cundhill, John (1812–1894)
Desmond 184
Curtis, William (1746–1799)
Quaker botanist and entomologist, pioneer of botanic gardens in London, author of Flora Londinenses (1777-98)
Quakers | Desmond 187 | Kent and Allen 123
Cuthbert (c. 634–687)
Saint, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Northumberland, celebrated for several miracles involving animals; said to have introduced laws to protect eider ducks and other seabirds in Northumberland.
ODNB | Wikipedia | Armstrong 37-38
Dalby, Robert (1808–1884)
Desmond 189 | Kent and Allen 123
Dallinger, William Henry (1839–1909)
Wikipedia | Desmond 190
Dalton, James (1764–1843)
Desmond 191 | Kent and Allen 124
Dalton, John (1766–1844)
Quaker meteorologist and chemist from Eaglesfield, Cumberland, lived mainly in Manchester; celebrated as the first scientist to calculate the atomic weights of elements
Quakers | Kent and Allen 124
Daltry, Thomas William (1832–1904)
Desmond 191 | Kent and Allen 124
Daniel, Henry (c. 1315–c. 1385)
Dominican friar and herbalist, cultivated 'a garden at Stepney beside London'; author of a herbal called Aaron Danielis (c. 1380).
ODNB | Desmond 192
Daniel, Richard (–1864)
Desmond 192
D'Arcy, Charles Frederick (1859–1938)
Desmond 193
Darwall, Leicester (1813–1897)
Desmond 193 | Kent and Allen 124
Davidson, George (c.1854–1901)
Desmond 195
Davies, Hugh (1739–1821)
Wikipedia | Desmond 196 | Kent and Allen 125
Davies, John (c. 1570–1644)
Rector of Mallwyd, Merionethshire and canon of St Asaph's Cathedral, Denbighshire. Lexicographer whose Welsh-Latin dictionary, Antiquae linguae Britannicae ... et linguae Latinae dictionarium duplex (1632) included plant names copied from Thomas Williams.
ODNB | Wikipedia | Desmond 196
Davies, John (1743–1817)
Herbaria@Home | Desmond 197 | Kent and Allen 125
Davies, Richard Henry (c. 1800–1887)
Missionary. Arrived in Tasmania in 1831 and collected plants.
Desmond 197
De Lisle, George Walter (1827–1888)
Desmond 202 | Kent and Allen 127
Deacon, Ernest (1872–1937)
Desmond 200
Delany, Patrick (1686–1768)
Dean of Down and Chancellor of both Christ Church and St. Patrick's cathedrals, Dublin. With his wife Mary Pendarves (née Granville) set out gardens at Delville House, Glasnevin, Co. Dublin, and Mount Panther, Co. Down.
ODNB | Wikipedia | Desmond 202
Derham, William (1657–1735)
Rector of Upminster, Essex; meteorologist who first accurately calculated the speed of sound and author of works of natural theology, especially Physico-theology: or, a demonstration of the being and attributes of God, from His works of creation (1713).
BHL | CCEd | ODNB | Royal Society | Wikipedia
Dewey, Edward (fl. 1830s)
Apparently vicar of Rainham, Norfolk, and kept a herbarium (Desmond)
Desmond 204 | Kent and Allen 128
Dickenson, Samuel (1733–1823)
Desmond 205
Dickson, Adam (1721–1776)
Minister of Duns, Berwickshire, then Whittingham, Haddingtonshire; author of A Treatise on Agriculture (1762-69), Small Farms Destructive to the Country in its Present Situation (1764), and The Husbandry of the Ancients (1788).
ODNB | Desmond 206
Dodd, John (fl. 1790s-1820s)
Vicar of Wigton, Cumberland, 1804-1826; botanised in Cumberland
Desmond 210
Dodsworth, Joseph (1799–1877)
Desmond 211 | Kent and Allen 129
Dodsworth, Matthew (1653–1695)
Rector of Sessay, Yorkshire, corresponded with John Ray about ferns, plants at NHM.
CCEd | Herbaria@Home | Desmond 211 | Kent and Allen 129
D'Ombrain, Henry Honywood (1818–1905)
Desmond 211
Doubleday, Edward (1811–1849)
Quaker entomologist. Author of List of Lepidopterous Insects in the British Museum (1844-48) and The Genera of Diurnal Lepidoptera (1852); founder member of the Entomological Society of London.
BHL | ODNB | Quakers | Wikipedia | Desmond 213
Doubleday, Henry (1808–1875)
Quaker entomologist and ornithologist. Author of Nomenclature of British Birds (1836) and Synonymic List of British Lepidoptera (1850); founder member of the Entomological Society of London.
BHL | Herbaria@Home | ODNB | Quakers | Wikipedia | Desmond 213 | Kent and Allen 130
Doubleday, Henry (1810–1902)
Quaker horticulturalist and manufacturer of glues and gums; promoted the use of 'Russian Comfrey' (a hybrid of Symphytum officinale and S. asperum) as a replacement for gum arabic.
ODNB | Quakers | Wikipedia
Douglas, Robert Cooper (1823–1887)
Desmond 214 | Kent and Allen 131
Drake, William Fitt (1786–1874)
Desmond 216
Du Port, James Mourant (1832–1899)
Desmond 222
Duncan, James (c. 1802–1861)
Desmond 220 | Kent and Allen 133
Duncan, John Shute (1769–1844)
Desmond 221
Duncumb, John (c. 1765–1839)
Rector of Abbey Dore, Herefordshire, and author of History of the County and City of Hereford (1804)
Desmond 221
Dunlap, Elizabeth Frances (Wilkinson) (1833–1908)
Had a herbarium of '4 large volumes' according to Hind and and Babington in The Flora of Suffolk (1889) p. 420. Wife of Rev. Arthur Philip Dunlap of Bardwell, Suffolk
Herbaria@Home | Kent and Allen 133
Durnford, Richard (1802–1895)
Desmond 223 | Kent and Allen 133
Dyce, Alexander (1798–1869)
Desmond 224
Dymock, S.F.
According to Kent and Allen, herbarium at Somerset Museum, Taunton. Probably the coin collector T.F. Dymock, Curate of Dalwood, Devon (c. 1810-c. 1858).
Herbaria@Home | Kent and Allen 134
Earle, John (c. 1601–1665)
Bishop of Worcester, then Salisbury. Author and translator. MS poem 'Hortus Mertonensis', on the garden at Merton College, Oxford, at the Bodleian.
CCEd | ODNB | Wikipedia | Desmond 225
Earle, John (1824–1903)
Desmond 225
Eaton, Alfred Edwin (1845–1929)
Desmond 226 | Kent and Allen 134
Edwards, Zachary James (1799–1880)
Desmond 229 | Kent and Allen 135
Egerton, G. (fl. 1840s)
Kent and Allen 135
Ellacombe, Henry Nicholson (1822–1916)
Desmond 230
Ellacombe, Henry Thomas (1790–1885)
Desmond 230
Eller, Charles Irvin (c, 1845–1903)
Desmond 230
Elliot, Edward Arthur (1890–1960)
Desmond 230 | Kent and Allen 135
Elliott, William (1792–1858)
Desmond 230 | Kent and Allen 136
Ellis, William (1794–1872)
Desmond 232
Ellison, Charles Christopher (1835–1912)
Desmond 232
Ellison, Henry (1820–)
Kent and Allen 136
Ellman, Ernest (1854–1929)
Desmond 232 | Kent and Allen 136
Elmhurst, William (1827–1899)
Kent and Allen 136
Engleheart, George Herbert (1851–1936)
Desmond 234
Eriugena, John Scotus (c. 800–c. 877)
Monk, theologian, philosopher, and poet from Ireland, later resident at Aachen; author of Periphyseon, also known as De Divisione Naturae (The Division of Nature).
ODNB | Wikipedia | Desmond 234
Evans, John (c. 1768–)
Master of Kingsdown Acacemy, and author of A Tour Through Parts of North Wales (1800)
Desmond 236
Evans, R.W. (1789–1866)
Desmond 236 | Kent and Allen 137
Ewbank, Henry (1828–1901)
Desmond 237
Ewing, John Walter (1856–1905)
Desmond 237 | Kent and Allen 137
Ewing, Thomas James (1813–1882)
Desmond 238
Eyre, William Leigh Williamson (1841–1914)
Desmond 238 | Kent and Allen 138
Farquharson, James (1781–1843)
Herbaria@Home | Desmond 241
Farquharson, James (1832–1906)
Herbaria@Home | Desmond 241 | Kent and Allen 138
Farrar, Frederic William (1831–1903)
Desmond 242 | Kent and Allen 138
Faulkner, Joseph (1886–1948)
Desmond 242
Featherstonhaugh, Walter (c. 1820–)
Desmond 243
Feilden, Oswald Mosley (1837–1924)
Desmond 243 | Kent and Allen 139
Fellowes, Charles (1813–1896)
Vicar of Shotesham, Norfolk, and President of the National Dahlia Society
Desmond 243
Fereday, John (1813–1871)
Desmond 244
Fergusson, John (1834–1907)
Desmond 244 | Kent and Allen 139
Fielding, Cecil Henry (1848–1918)
Desmond 245
Firminger, Thomas Augustus Charles (1812–1884)
Desmond 247
Fisher, Osmond (1817–1914)
Wikipedia | Armstrong 122-23
Fisher, Robert (1848–1933)
Desmond 248 | Kent and Allen 140
Fleming, John (1785–1857)
Desmond 250 | Kent and Allen 140
Flemying, William Westropp (c. 1849–1921)
Desmond 251 | Kent and Allen 140
Foley, Samuel (1655–1695)
Bishop of Down and Connor, before that vicar of Finglas, Dublin; member of Dublin Philosophical Society; botanists and microscopist.
ODNB | Wikipedia | Desmond 252
Forby, Joseph (1734–1799)
Rector of Fincham, Norfolk, botanist, agricultural reformer
Desmond 254
Forby, Robert (1759–1825)
Desmond 254 | Kent and Allen 142
Ford, John (1801–1875)
Quaker headmaster of Bootham School, York, whose 'Natural History, Literary and Polytechnic Society' inspired dozens of Quaker naturalists.
Quakers | Kent and Allen 142
Forster, Johann Reinhold (1729–1798)
Desmond 256
Fothergill, John (1712–1780)
Quaker doctor and amateur botanist and conchologist; developed a botanic garden at Upton House, West Ham, Essex.
BHL | ODNB | Quakers | Royal Society | Wikipedia | Desmond 258
Foulkes, Robert (c. 1702–1729)
Ordainded and MD, born Llanfrothen Merionethshire. Botanist and herbalist, corresponded with Richard Richardson and Samuel Brewer. [Desmond confuses with infamous rector of Llanbedr Dyffryn Clwyd - not the same person].
Herbaria@Home | Desmond 259 | Kent and Allen 143
Foulkes, Thomas (1825–1900)
Missionary in Madras, India, antiquarian, linguist, and occasional collector of plants
Desmond 259
Fountaine, John (c. 1814–1877)
Desmond 259
Fountaine, Margaret (1862–1940)
Diarist, lepidopterist, and explorer; daughter of Rev. John Fountaine
Wikipedia
Fowler, William Warde (1835–1912)
Armstrong 57, 101, 102 | Desmond 259 | Kent and Allen 143
Fox, Alfred (1794–1874)
Desmond 260
Fox, Charles (1797–1878)
Wikipedia
Fox, Edward (1826–1891)
Vicar of Romford, Essex, and later rector of Upper Heyford, Oxfordshire; dean of divinity at Oxford. Collected plants in Berkshire and Oxfordshire.
Desmond 260
Fox, George Croker (1784–1850)
Fox, Henry Elliott (1841–1926)
Desmond 260 | Kent and Allen 143
Fox, Howard (1836–1922)
Wikipedia
Fox, Robert Were (1789–1877)
Quakers | Wikipedia
Fox, William Darwin (1805–1880)
Wikipedia | Armstrong 100-101, 180
Francis, Robert Bransby (c. 1768–1850)
Desmond 261 | Kent and Allen 143
Fraser, James (1634–1709)
Minister of Kirkhill, Inverness-shire, traveller and diarist; author of MS Triennial travels (1660s) and Wardlaw Manuscript (1774) which contain natural history and meteorology.
ODNB
Fraser, James (1814–1902)
Herbaria@Home | Desmond 262 | Kent and Allen 144
Freeman, Thomas Birch (1809–1890)
Wesleyan Methodist minister and missionary of African descent. Founder of the Methodist churches of the Gold Coast and Nigeria; botanist and gardener; author of Journal of various visits to the kingdom of Ashanti, Aku and Dahomey (1844)
ODNB | Wikipedia
Freer, Walter Leacroft (c. 1889–c. 1945)
Kent and Allen 144
French, David John (c. 1857–c. 1896)
Kent and Allen 144
Friend, Hilderic (1852–1940)
Desmond 264 | Kent and Allen 145
Fulke, William (c. 1537–1589)
Vicar of Great Warley, Essex, and Dennington, Suffolk; Master of Pembroke, Cambridge. Meteorologist (A Goodly Gallerye, 1563) and critic of astrology (Antiprognosticon, 1560).
CCEd | ODNB | Wikipedia
Gace, Frederick Aubert (1812–1902)
Desmond 268
Gale, John Sadler (1835–1915)
Desmond 268 | Kent and Allen 145
Galloway, William Brown (1811–1903)
Armstrong 5-6, 123-25, 172
Galpin, Francis William (1858–1945)
Desmond 268 | Kent and Allen 145
Gardiner, James (1689–1732)
Subdean of Lincoln Cathedral and prebendary of Asgarby; translated René Rapin's Of Gardens (1706)
CCEd | ODNB | Wikipedia | Desmond 270
Garnett, Philip Mauleverer (1906–1967)
Armstrong 59 | Desmond 271 | Kent and Allen 146
Garnett, Richard (1789–1850)
Desmond 271
Garnier, Thomas (1776–1873)
Desmond 271 | Kent and Allen 146
Garnons, William Lewes Pugh (1791–1863)
Desmond 271 | Kent and Allen 146
Garnsey, Henry Edward Fowler (1826–1903)
Desmond 271 | Kent and Allen 146
Gasking, Samuel (1852–1925)
Desmond 272 | Kent and Allen 146
Gatty, Alfred (1813–1903)
Vicar of Ecclesfield, Yorkshire; had a herbarium and assisted his wife Margaret Gatty, the algologist and children's author.
Wikipedia | Kent and Allen 146
Gatty, Margaret (1809–1873)
ODNB | Wikipedia | Armstrong 53 | Desmond 273
Gaunt, Charles (1789–1867)
Desmond 273 | Kent and Allen 147
Gawthorp, William (–1759)
Rector of Ripley, Yorkshire. Annotated copy of J. Wilson's Synopsis of British Plants apparently at Merseyside Museums.
Armstrong 60 | Desmond 273
Gerald of Wales (c. 1146–c. 1223)
Norman-Welsh priest Archdeacon of Brecon, and historian whose descriptions of Wales and Ireland, including Descriptio Cambriae (Description of Wales), pay much attention to wildlife.
ODNB | Wikipedia | Armstrong 30-32
Gerard, John (1840–1912)
Desmond 275
Gibbes, Heneage (1802–1887)
Desmond 275
Gibson, Thomas Brownell (1847–1927)
Wikipedia | Desmond 277
Gilbert, Samuel (–c. 1692)
Rector of Quatt, Shropshire. Horticulturalist and author of the Florist's Vademecum (1682) and Gardener's Almanack (1683)
CCEd | ODNB | Wikipedia | Desmond 278
Gill, William Wyatt (1828–1896)
Desmond 279
Gillet, E.A. (1842–1927)
Kent and Allen 149
Gilpin, William (1724–1804)
Vicar of Boldre, Hampshire, and prebendary of Salisbury; artist and critic who pioneered the idea of the picturesque in numerous publications including a series of 'Observations' on British landscapes (1782-1809) and Remarks on Forest Scenery (1791).
BHL | CCEd | ODNB | Wikipedia | Armstrong 59 | Desmond 280
Gisborne, Thomas (1758–1846)
Desmond 281 | Kent and Allen 149
Glen, Andrew (c. 1666–1732)
Rector of Hathern, Leicestershire. Botanist and friend of John Ray. Collected a large herbarium in England, Sweden, and Italy.
CCEd | Herbaria@Home | ODNB | Desmond 282 | Kent and Allen 149
Glenie, Samuel Owen (1811–1875)
Desmond 282
Glennie, Benjamin (1812–1900)
Kent and Allen 149
Goddard, Edward Hungerford (1854–1947)
Desmond 283
Goldie, Hugh (1815–1895)
Missionary to Old Calabar, Nigeria
Desmond 284
Goode, Reginald Henry (c. 1890–c. 1967)
Kent and Allen 150
Goodenough, Samuel (1743–1827)
Bishop of Carlisle, botanist, and first treasurer of the Linnean Society
Royal Society | Wikipedia | Armstrong 111 | Desmond 285 | Kent and Allen 150
Gordon, Charles
Herbaria@Home | Kent and Allen 151
Gordon, George (1801–1893)
Desmond 286 | Kent and Allen 151
Gough, Edward John (1850–1946)
Desmond 288 | Kent and Allen 151
Graham, George Gordon (1917–2015)
Armstrong 4, 10, 55 | Kent and Allen 152
Graham, Henry Longueville (1844–1921)
Desmond 290 | Kent and Allen 152
Graham, Patrick (1756–1835)
Desmond 290
Grainger, John (1830–1891)
Desmond 291 | Kent and Allen 152
Gray, D.
Herbaria@Home | Kent and Allen 153
Gray, John Durbin (1844–1925)
Desmond 292 | Kent and Allen 153
Gray, W.
Herbaria@Home | Kent and Allen 153
Green, Thomas (c.1738–1788)
Wikipedia | Desmond 294
Green, Vincent Arnott (c. 1862–c. 1900)
Herbaria@Home | Kent and Allen 153
Green, William (fl. 1720s-1740s)
Possibly Oxford; apparently botanised in Wales.
Herbaria@Home | Desmond 294 | Kent and Allen 153
Green, William Spotswood (1847–1919)
Desmond 294
Greenstock, William (1830–1912)
Desmond 295
Greenwell, William (1820–1918)
Desmond 296
Gregor, Arthur George (1867–1954)
Desmond 296 | Kent and Allen 154
Gretton, William (1736–1813)
Archdeacon of Essex, Vicar of Saffron Walden and Rector of Littlebury, Essex; Master of Magdalene College, and Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University; kept a weather diary.
Wikipedia | Desmond 302
Griffiths, Amelia Elizabeth (née Rogers) (1768–1858)
Phycologist, known as 'The Queen of Seaweeds', married to Rev. William Griffith (1784-1802), rector of Salisbury St Edmund, Wiltshire, and perpetual vicar of St Issey, Cornwall. After his death moved to Torquay, Devon.
Herbaria@Home | ODNB | Wikipedia | Desmond 300 | Kent and Allen 155
Griffiths, Evan (1795–1873)
Desmond 300
Grindal, Edmund (c. 1519–1583)
Archbishop of Canterbury, previously Bishop of London and Archbishop of York; gardener who introduced Tamarisk into Great Britain.
CCEd | ODNB | Wikipedia | Desmond 301
Groult, Philip (fl. 1800s)
Desmond 302
Guilding, Lansdown (1797–1831)
Wikipedia | Desmond 303
Guille, Mary Elizabeth (c. 1821–1903)
Desmond 303 | Kent and Allen 156
Gunn, George (1851–1900)
Desmond 304 | Kent and Allen 156
Gunn, John (1801–1890)
Wikipedia | Armstrong 19
Gutteres, F.E (fl. 1890s)
Kent and Allen 156
Hailstone, John (1759–1847)
Wikipedia | Armstrong 110 | Desmond 307 | Kent and Allen 157
Hales, Stephen (1677–1761)
Perpetual curate of Teddington, Middlesex and rector of Porlock, Somerset, and Faringdon, Hampshire. Pioneer of plant and animal physiology. Author of Vegetable Staticks (1727) Haemastaticks (1733), and Philosophical Experiments (1739).
BHL | CCEd | ODNB | Royal Society | Wikipedia | Armstrong 50-51 | Desmond 308
Hall, Charles Albert (1872–1965)
Desmond 309
Halliday, Guy (fl. 1920s)
Kent and Allen 158
Halpin, Nicholson John (1790–1850)
Desmond 310
Hamilton, George (1769–1833)
Built St.George's Church, Balbriggan, Co. Dublin.
Desmond 311
Hamilton, James (1814–1867)
Desmond 311 | Kent and Allen 158
Hanbury, Daniel (1825–1875)
Quaker botanist and pharmacologist. Assisted brother Thomas Hanbury with garden at La Mortola. Author of Pharmacographia; A History of the Principal Drugs of Vegetable Origin met with in Great Britain and British India (1874) and Science Papers (1876).
BHL | Herbaria@Home | ODNB | Royal Society | Wikipedia | Desmond 313 | Kent and Allen 158
Hanbury, Thomas (1832–1907)
Quaker tea merchant, garderner, and botanist from Clapham, Surrey. Garden at La Mortola, Italy. Bourght and donated Wisley Garden, Surrey, to Royal Horticultural Society.
BHL | ODNB | Quakers | Wikipedia | Desmond 313
Hanbury, William (1725–1778)
Rector of Church Langton, Leicestershire. Horticulturalist who created extensive plantations. Author of Essay on planting... to the glory of God (1758), The Gardener's New Calendar (1758) and A Complete Body of Planting and Gardening (1770-71)
CCEd | ODNB | Desmond 313
Hannington, James (1847–1885)
Desmond 315
Harbin, George (c. 1665–1744)
Chaplain to Francis Turner, bishop of Ely, and later to Thomas Thynne, first Viscount Weymouth. Mainly a historian but manuscript 'Memoirs of Gardening' held at Longleat House, Wiltshire.
ODNB | Wikipedia | Desmond 316
Harding, Michael (c. 1649–c. 1690)
Ordained in Oxford but parish unknown. MS annotations in works by John Ray at British Library.
CCEd | Herbaria@Home | Desmond 316 | Kent and Allen 159
Harper, William (c. 1691–1749)
Chaplain to George, 3rd earl of Cholmondeley and rector of Barwick In Elmet, Yorkshire. Author of The antiquity, innocence, and pleasure of gardening (1732)
CCEd | Desmond 319
Harpur-Crewe, Henry (1828–1883)
Desmond 319 | Kent and Allen 160
Harriman, John (1760–1831)
Perpetual curate of Heighington, Croxdale, and Ash and Satley, Co. Durham. Botanist and mineralogist with a special interest in lichens. FLS.
CCEd | Herbaria@Home | ODNB | Wikipedia | Desmond 319 | Kent and Allen 160
Harris, James (fl. 1840s-1870s)
Kent and Allen 160
Harris, John (c. 1666–1719)
Prebendary of Rochester, Kent, rector of Winchelsea and vicar of Icklesham, Sussex. FRS, encyclopedist, compiler of voyages, author of Remarks on some late papers relating to the universal deluge, and to the natural history of the earth (1697).
BHL | CCEd | ODNB | Royal Society | Wikipedia
Harrison, Robert (1715–1802)
Quaker natural philosopher, master of Trinity House navigation school in Newcastle
Herbaria@Home | ODNB | Desmond 321 | Kent and Allen 161
Harrison, W.S. (fl. 1880s-1890s)
Herbaria@Home | Kent and Allen 161
Harrison, William (1535–1593)
Rector of Radwinter, Essex, Canon of St. George's Chapel, Windsor. Author of A Description of England (1577), in Holinshed's Chronicles.
CCEd | ODNB | Wikipedia | Desmond 321
Hartley, Peter Harold Trehair (1909–1985)
Armstrong 3, 10, 79, 147, 149
Hartley, Thomas Procter (c. 1867–1958)
Vicar of Colton, then Morland, Lancashire, assisted H.A Macpherson
Armstrong 92
Hartshorne, Charles Henry (1802–1865)
Desmond 323 | Kent and Allen 161
Hart-Smith, Thomas Northmore. See Smith-Pearse, Thomas Northmore Hart
Harvey, Henry Herbert (fl. 1900s-1910s)
Kent and Allen 161
Hassé, Alexander Cossart (1813–1894)
Desmond 325 | Kent and Allen 162
Hatton, Charles Osborne Smeathman (1872–1932)
Desmond 325
Haughton, Samuel (1821–1897)
Desmond 326
Hawker, William Henry (1828–1874)
Desmond 326 | Kent and Allen 162
Hawkes, Henry (1805–1886)
Desmond 327
Haydon, George Philip (c. 1846–1913)
Vicar of Hatfield, Yorkshire; cultivated narcissi
Desmond 328
Hayes, Francis Carlile (1838–1931)
Desmond 329
Head, Oswald (–1867)
Apparently vicar of Howick, Northumberland; kept a herbarium
Kent and Allen 163
Headley, Alexander (1826–1899)
Desmond 330
Heath, Douglas Montague (1881–1961)
Desmond 330 | Kent and Allen 163
Heath, William Mortimer (1823–1817)
Kent and Allen 163
Heathcote, Evelyn Dawsonne (1844–1908)
Desmond 331
Heaton, Richard (1601–1666)
Rector of Birr, County Offaly, Kilkeel, Co. Down, and Dean of Clonfert, Co. Galway. Botanised in both England and Ireland; produced one of the earliest systematic studies of the Irish Flora.
Wikipedia | Desmond 331
Hemsted, John (c. 1747–1824)
Armstrong 12, 56 | Desmond 333 | Kent and Allen 164
Hennah, Richard (1766–1846)
Chaplain to the Plymouth Garrison; geologist who published on Devon limestone
Challinor 191
Henricus Anglicus (fl.c. C13th–)
Possibly either (or both) a friar or a doctor; author of a poem now in the Sloane collection that offers a planting scheme for a 'square garden'.
Desmond 335
Henry of Huntingdon (c. 1088–1157)
Archdeacon of Huntingdon, historian, poet, and herbalist; author of the verse herbal Anglicanus ortus.
ODNB | Wikipedia | Desmond 335
Henslow, George (1835–1925)
Armstrong 19, 64-65, 174 | Desmond 336 | Kent and Allen 164
Henslow, John Stevens (1796–1861)
Armstrong 3, 5, 8-9, 10, 15, 18, 19, 52, 55, 63, 67, 146-47, 171, 180 | Challinor 191 | Desmond 336 | Kent and Allen 164
Herbert, William (1778–1847)
Desmond 336
Hervey, George (1893–1967)
Desmond 337
Hewan, Archibald (c. 1832–1883)
Desmond 338
Hey, Samuel (1781–1852)
Vicar of Ockbrook, Derbyshire, collector of beetles, and friend of William Darwin Fox.
Armstrong 100-101
Hick, James Marmaduke (c. 1846–1932)
Herbaria@Home | Desmond 339 | Kent and Allen 165
Hickey, William (1787–1875)
Wikipedia | Desmond 340
Higgens, John Bury (fl. 1910s)
Herbaria@Home | Kent and Allen 165
Higgins, Henry Hugh (1814–1893)
Armstrong 9, 144, 146, 173 | Desmond 340
Hill, C.H. (fl. 1840s)
Kent and Allen 166
Hill, Edward (1809–1900)
Desmond 341 | Kent and Allen 166
Hill, Elizabeth (1758–1843)
Phycologist and entomologist from a large family of clergymen based in Pilton, Devon.
Herbaria@Home | Desmond 341 | Kent and Allen 166
Hincks, Hannah (1798–1871)
Desmond 343 | Kent and Allen 166
Hincks, Thomas (c. 1836–c. 1913)
Kent and Allen 166
Hincks, Thomas Dix (1767–1857)
Desmond 344 | Kent and Allen 166
Hincks, William (1794–1871)
Desmond 344 | Kent and Allen 166
Hind, William Marsden (1815–1894)
Desmond 344 | Kent and Allen 166
Hoblyn, Richard Dennis (1803–1886)
Desmond 345
Hodges, Charles Bishop (1796–1864)
Desmond 346
Hodges, Thomas (1791–1882)
Desmond 346
Holbech, Charles (1782–1837)
Desmond 348
Holcombe, John (1710–1775)
Prebendary of Llandarog and Rector of Tenby and of Gumfreston, Pembrokeshire. Botanist who corresponded with John Lightfoot and Joseph Banks, among others.
CCEd | Herbaria@Home | Desmond 348 | Kent and Allen 167
Hole, Samuel Reynolds (1819–1904)
Desmond 348
Holland, J.A. (fl. 1860s-1890s)
Kent and Allen 168
Holloway, Benjamin (c. 1691–1759)
Rector of Middleton Stoney, Oxfordshire and Archdeacon of Bedford. Biblical scholar, linguist, and geologist, author of The Natural History of the Earth (1726)
BHL | CCEd | ODNB | Royal Society | Challinor 192
Holloway, John Ernest (1881–1945)
Armstrong 166
Holme, John (1783–1829)
Desmond 350 | Kent and Allen 168
Holmes, Arthur Beresford (1864–1947)
Desmond 350 | Kent and Allen 168
Holmes, Edward Adolphus (1809–1886)
Desmond 350 | Kent and Allen 168
Hombersley, Arthur (1866–1941)
Desmond 351
Homfray, Kenyon (1812–1883)
Desmond 351 | Kent and Allen 168
Hopkins, Gerard Manley (1844–1899)
Jesuit priest, poet, and artist; produced flower sketches.
ODNB | Wikipedia | Desmond 354
Hore, William Strong (1807–1882)
Desmond 355 | Kent and Allen 169
Horman, William (c. 1440–1535)
Rector of East Wretham, Norfolk, Master of Eton College, Berkshire; linguist and grammarian who also wrote a Herbarum synonyma.
ODNB | Wikipedia | Desmond 355
Horner, Francis Daltry (c. 1838–1912)
Desmond 356
Hort, Fenton John Anthony (1828–1892)
Desmond 357 | Kent and Allen 169
Hose, George Frederick (1838–1922)
Desmond 357
Hose, Gertrude (1883–1977)
Desmond 358
How, William Walsham (1823–1897)
Desmond 359 | Kent and Allen 170
Howard, Luke (1772–1864)
Quaker meteorologist in London; author of An Essay on the Modification of Clouds (1803) and celebrated for his system of naming clouds.
Quakers | Wikipedia
Howchin, Walter (1845–1937)
Wikipedia
Howson, John (1817–1866)
Desmond 361 | Kent and Allen 171
Hudson, John Clare (1848–1934)
Kent and Allen 171
Hughes, Griffiths (1707–c. 1759)
Rector of Radnor and Evansburg, Pennsylvania, and later of St. Lucy's, Barbados. FRS. Author of The Natural History of Barbados (1750)
BHL | ODNB | Royal Society | Wikipedia | Desmond 362
Hull, John Edward (1863–1960)
Armstrong 103 | Desmond 363 | Kent and Allen 171
Humphreys, D. (fl. 1680s)
Apparently collected seaweed in Anglesey.
Desmond 364
Hunkin, Joseph Wellington (1887–1950)
Bishop of Truro and author of a series of 'Letters from a Cornish Bishop's Garden'
Wikipedia | Desmond 365
Hunter, Robert (1823–1897)
Desmond 366
Hunter, Sylvester Joseph (1829–1896)
Armstrong 179 | Desmond 366 | Kent and Allen 172
Huntington, Robert (1637–1701)
Chaplain to the Levant Company at Aleppo, later rector of Great Hallingbury in Essex and (briefly) Bishop of Raphoe, Donegal; collected plants in Aleppo, now at Oxford.
CCEd | ODNB | Wikipedia | Desmond 367
Huntley, John Thomas (c. 1790–1881)
Desmond 367
Hussey, Anna Maria (1805–1853)
Mycologist, writer, and illustrator; author of Illustrations of British Mycology (2 vols. 1847-55). Wife of astronomer Rev. Thomas John Hussey (1792-1866), rector of Hayes, Kent. Correspondence with Rev. Miles Joseph Berkeley.
BHL | ODNB | Wikipedia | Desmond 368
Hutchinson, Thomas (1815–1903)
Desmond 369 | Kent and Allen 173
Hutchinson, Thomas (1846–1916)
Desmond 369
Hutchinson, Thomas Neville (1826–1899)
Desmond 369 | Kent and Allen 173
Innes, Robert (fl. 1720s-1730s)
Rector of Magilligan, Co. Londonderry, and author of Miscellaneous letters on several subjects in philosophy and astronomy (1732)
Desmond 374
Irwin, John James (c. 1810–1889)
Curate at Steeple Claydon, Buckinghamshire, and Colonial Chaplain at Hong Kong, 1856-1865. Collected some plants in Hong Kong.
Desmond 375
Ismay, Joseph (1708–1778)
Vicar of Mirfield, Yorkshire. Epitaph in the church notes ' he was a singular lover of antiquity and studied botany'. His 'Mirfield Diaries' in W.Yorks archives contain much botanical information.
CCEd | Desmond 375
Jackett, Robert (1857–1935)
Rector of Crunwere, Carmarthenshire, and collector of bryophytes.
Desmond 376
Jackson, Richard (1700–1782)
Vicar of Tarrington, Herefordshire, then Rector of Shelsley Beauchamp, Worcestershire. Bequested estate to Cambridge physic garden and to establish the Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy.
CCEd | Wikipedia | Desmond 377
Jacob, John (1796–1849)
Desmond 378 | Kent and Allen 175
Jacob, Joseph (1858–1926)
Desmond 378 | Kent and Allen 175
Jacson, Maria Elizabeth (1755–1829)
Desmond 378
Jago, George (1676–1726)
Vicar of Harberton and Halwell, Devon; lectured in divinity at Looe, Cornwall. Corresponded with James Petiver about fish.
Herbaria@Home | Desmond 378
Jameson, Hampden Gurney (1852–1939)
Desmond 379
Jeans, George (1803–1863)
Desmond 380
Jenner, Henry Lascelles (1820–1898)
Desmond 383 | Kent and Allen 176
Jenyns, Leonard (1800–1893)
Wikipedia | Armstrong 5, 14, 18, 64, 74, 76, 87-91, 98, 100, 105-106, 107-108, 145, 147, 176, 180 | Desmond 80 | Kent and Allen 96
Jermyn, George Bitton (1789–1857)
Desmond 383 | Kent and Allen 177
Johns, Charles Alexander (1811–1874)
Armstrong 61-62, 76, 141 | Desmond 384 | Kent and Allen 177
Johnson, Edmund (c. 1820–1889)
Anglican missionary to Travancore and Cochin, India, where he collected orchids; later vicar of Wapley, then Westerleigh, Gloucestershire.
Desmond 385
Johnson, Ralph (1629–1695)
Vicar of Brignall, Yorkshire; ornithologist and botanist. Contributed to Willughby and Ray's Ornithology (1676). Suggested to Ray that he should arrange plants naturally rather than alphabetically.
CCEd | ODNB | Desmond 386
Johnson, William (1844–1919)
Desmond 386
Johnson, William Frederick (1852–1934)
Desmond 386
Johnson, William James Percival (1854–1928)
Desmond 386
Jones, Hugh (1671–1702)
Rector of Christ Church, Port Republic, Maryland; herbarium became part of the Sloane Collection.
Herbaria@Home | Desmond 389 | Kent and Allen 178
Jones, Hugh (1691–1760)
Vicar of St. Stephen's Church, North Sassafras Parish, Maryland and author of The Present State of Virginia, and a short view of Maryland and North Carolina (London, 1724).
CCEd | Wikipedia
Jones, John Evans (c. 1858–1937)
Desmond 389
Jones, John Pike (1790–1857)
Desmond 389 | Kent and Allen 178
Josselin, Ralph (1617–1683)
Vicar of Earls Colne in Essex who kept a diary of rural life with agricultural and meterological details.
CCEd | ODNB | Wikipedia
Jourdain, Francis Charles Robert (1865–1940)
Rector of Appleton, Oxfordshire, and amateur ornithologist and oologist.
Wikipedia | Armstrong 3, 10, 77, 148
Keble Martin, William (1877–1969)
Wikipedia | Armstrong 62 | Desmond 471 | Kent and Allen 199
Keeling, William (1804–1891)
Kent and Allen 179
Keith, George Skene (1752–1823)
Desmond 395
Keith, James (1825–1905)
Desmond 395 | Kent and Allen 179
Keith, Patrick (1769–1840)
Desmond 395
Kelsall, John Edward (1864–1924)
Desmond 395
Kendall, C. E. Y. (fl. 1890s-1930s)
Curate at Preston and Liverpool, Lancashire, and later Oundle, Northamptonshire. Several publications on molluscs and ecology.
Armstrong 106-107, 180
Keogh, John (c. 1650–1725)
Prebendary of Termonbarry, Co. Roscommon. Member of the Dublin Philosophical Society. MSS letters on rare plants at Trinity College, Dublin. Father of John Keogh (c. 1681-1754).
ODNB | Desmond 398
Keogh, John (c. 1681–1754)
Vicar of Mitchelstown, Co. Cork, and author of Botanologia Universalis Hibernicaor, or a general Irish Herbal (1735) and Zoologia Medicinalis Hibernica or, a Treatise on Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Reptiles or Insects ... in this Kingdom. Son of John Keogh (c.
ODNB | Wikipedia | Desmond 398
Kerr, Frederick Hugh Woodhams (1885–1958)
Desmond 398 | Kent and Allen 180
Kerr, J. (fl. 1910s)
Kent and Allen 180
Kerr, Robert (1857–1939)
Desmond 399 | Kent and Allen 180
Kilvert, Francis (1840–1879)
Armstrong 151-52
King, Samuel (1810–1888)
Desmond 401 | Kent and Allen 181
Kingsley, Charles (1819–1875)
ODNB | Wikipedia | Armstrong 6, 121, 139, 145, 147-48, 173, 181 | Desmond 402 | Kent and Allen 181
Kingsley, William Fowler (1815–1916)
Desmond 403 | Kent and Allen 181
Kingston, D.E. (fl. 1970s)
Kent and Allen 181
Kinns, Samuel (1826–1903)
Armstrong 130-31, 172
Kirby, F.
Herbaria@Home | Kent and Allen 181
Kirby, H. (fl. 1830s-1870s)
Kent and Allen 181
Kirby, William (1759–1850)
Armstrong 56, 99-100, 147 | Desmond 403 | Kent and Allen 182
Kirkby, R. Wallace
According to Kent and Allen, herbarium at the Hancock Museum, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. However may instead be J.W. Kirkby (fl. 1870s) whose collection is in the museum.
Herbaria@Home | Kent and Allen 182
Kitchen, Thomas Basil (1905–1987)
Anglican missionary in Rhodesia and Bengal, later chaplain of Gibraltar, collected beetles
Armstrong 164-65
Kitson, Fanny (fl. 1909–)
Desmond 405
Knubley, Edward Ponsonby (1850–1931)
Armstrong 12, 78-79 | Kent and Allen 183
Lake, William Charles (1817–1897)
Desmond 410 | Kent and Allen 183
Lamont, James (1844–1928)
Desmond 411
Landsborough, David (1779–1854)
Church of Scotland minister at Stevenston and later Free Church of Scotland minister at Saltcoats, Ayrshire. Botanist and phycologist; author of Arran, A Poem (1828), Excursions to Arran (1851), and A Popular History of British Sea-Weeds (1859)
BHL | Herbaria@Home | ODNB | Wikipedia | Armstrong 52-53 | Desmond 411 | Kent and Allen 184
Landsborough, David (1826–1912)
Minister at Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, and botanist
Desmond 412 | Kent and Allen 184
Lascelles, Edwin (c. 1838–1923)
Desmond 414
Last, Joseph Thomas (1849–1933)
Wikipedia | Desmond 414
Lathbury, Nathaniel Peter Edward (1820–1855)
Armstrong 56
Lathbury, Peter (1760–1820)
Desmond 414 | Kent and Allen 184
Latrobe, Peter (1795–1863)
Desmond 415
Laurence, John (1668–1732)
Prebendary of Salisbury and chaplain to the bishop, rector of Yelvertoft, Northamptonshire, and Bishopwearmouth, Co. Durham. Author of The Clergyman's Recreation (1714, on gardening), The Fruit-Garden Kalendar (1718) and A New System of Agriculture (1726)
CCEd | ODNB | Desmond 415
Lawson, A. (fl. 1860s)
Kent and Allen 185
Lawson, Thomas (1630–1691)
Quaker botanist and school teacher at at Great Strickland, Westmorland. Corresponded with John Ray and kept manuscript notes of botanising tours in the north of England.
Herbaria@Home | ODNB | Quakers | Wikipedia | Desmond 418 | Kent and Allen 185
Lay, George Tradescant (1800–1845)
Desmond 419
Le Brocq, Philip (–1800)
Chaplain to the Duke of Gloucester then perpetual curate of St. Mary's, Portsea, Hampshire; author of several books on fruit trees and forestry
Desmond 102
Lea, Thomas Simcox (1857–1939)
Desmond 419 | Kent and Allen 185
Leathes, George Reading (1779–1836)
Desmond 420 | Kent and Allen 185
Lee, James (1715–1795)
Quaker nurseryman at Hammersmith, Middlesex. Botanist and horticulturalist who translated Linnaeus's Philosophia Botanica as An Introduction to Botany (1760)
BHL | ODNB | Quakers | Desmond 421
Leedal, G. Philip (1927–1982)
Desmond 422
Leefe, John Ewbank (1813–1889)
Wikipedia | Desmond 422 | Kent and Allen 185
Lees, Thomas (fl. 1880s)
Apparently vicar of Greystoke, Cumberland, who assisted H.A. Macpherson with records about foxes (Armstrong)
Armstrong 92
Leigh, Hugh (1648–1714)
Minister of Bressay, Shetland, and contributor to Robert Sibbald's Scotia Illustrata (1684)
Leighton, William Allport (1805–1889)
Curate at St. Giles' Shrewsbury, Shropshire, and author of Lichen Flora of Great Britain (1871)
Wikipedia | Armstrong 53, 54 | Desmond 424 | Kent and Allen 186
Leitch, William (1814–1864)
Wikipedia | Desmond 424
Lett, Henry William (1838–1920)
Desmond 426 | Kent and Allen 187
Lettsom, John Coakley (1744–1815)
Quaker doctor, botanist, and entomologist, born in British Virgin Islands but settled at Camberwell, Surrey; author of The naturalist's and traveller's companion (1774)
Quakers | Wikipedia | Desmond 426
Lewis, George (c. 1660–1729)
Chaplain to the East India Company in Fort St George, Madras from 1692 to 1714. Collector of plants, artefacts, and manuscripts; sent plants from Cape of Good Hope to James Petiver.
Desmond 427
Lewis, Thomas Taylor (1801–1858)
Armstrong 9
Ley, Augustin (1842–1911)
Herbaria@Home | Armstrong 19, 54 | Desmond 427 | Kent and Allen 187
Lightfoot, John (1735–1788)
Parochial lecturer in Uxbridge, Middlesex, plus livings in Nottinghamshire and Hampshire; personal chaplain to Margaret Cavendish-Bentinck, duchess of Portland, whose collection he curated. Botanist and conchologist, author of Flora Scotica (1777).
BHL | CCEd | Herbaria@Home | ODNB | Royal Society | Wikipedia | Desmond 428 | Kent and Allen 188
Lillie, John (1806–1866)
Wikipedia | Desmond 429
Lindsay, John (1729–1788)
Desmond 429 | Kent and Allen 189
Linton, Edward Francis (1848–1928)
Desmond 430 | Kent and Allen 189
Linton, William Richardson (1850–1908)
Herbaria@Home | Wikipedia | Desmond 431 | Kent and Allen 189
Lipscombe, Christopher (1781–1843)
Desmond 431
Liston, William (1781–1864)
Desmond 432
Livens, Herbert Mann (1860–c. 1946)
Desmond 432 | Kent and Allen 190
Livingstone, David (1813–1873)
Desmond 433
Lloyd, Robert Lumley (c. 1663–1729)
Rector of St. Paul's, Covent Garden, London, and kept his own garden in West Cheam, Surrey.
CCEd | Desmond 442
Logan, James (1674–1751)
Quaker colonist in Philadelphia, scholar and founder of University of Pennsylvania. Botanist who worked on plant sexuality, published in Experimenta et meletemata de plantarum generatione (Leyden, 1739, English translation 1747).
ODNB | Quakers | Wikipedia | Desmond 436
Lombard, Peter (c. 1554–1625)
Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland; De Regno Hiberniae (1632) contains horticultural data.
ODNB | Wikipedia | Desmond 436
Low, George (1746–1795)
Desmond 439
Lowe, Henry Edward (1814–1895)
Desmond 439 | Kent and Allen 192
Lowe, Richard Thomas (1802–1874)
Wikipedia | Desmond 440 | Kent and Allen 192
Lucas, Samuel (1805–1870)
Desmond 441 | Kent and Allen 192
Lyon, Henry Charles. See Reader, Henry Peter (–1929)
Lysons, Daniel (1762–1834)
Desmond 445 | Kent and Allen 193
Lyttel, Edward Shefford (1868–1944)
Desmond 445
Macfarlane, George (1814–1884)
Minister at Coldingham, Berwickshire, and 'an enthusiastic botanist'.
Desmond 451 | Kent and Allen 194
MacFarlane, Samuel (1837–1911)
Desmond 451
Mack, John (1797–1845)
Scottish Baptist missionary at Serampore, India, working with William Carey
Desmond 453
Mackinnell, Alexander (fl. 1870s)
Kent and Allen 195
Macloskie, George (1834–1920)
Desmond 458
Macmillan, Hugh (1833–1903)
Desmond 458 | Kent and Allen 195
Macpherson, Hugh Alexander (1858–1901)
Armstrong 91
MacRitchie, William (1754–1837)
Desmond 461 | Kent and Allen 196
Macvicar, John Gibson (1801–1884)
Desmond 461
Maddock, James (1718–1786)
Quaker nurseryman at Walworth, Surrey. Author of the postuhmously published The florist's directory : or, A treatise on the culture of flowers, published posthumously in 1792 by his son, also James.
BHL | ODNB | Quakers | Desmond 461
Maddock, James (1763–1825)
Quaker nurseryman who inherited Walworth, Surrey, nursery from his father, also James Maddock (1718-1786), and posthumously edited his father's The florist's directory : or, A treatise on the culture of flowers (1792).
ODNB | Quakers | Desmond 462
Malleson, Frederic Amadeus (1819–1897)
Desmond 464 | Kent and Allen 197
Maloney, Timothy David (fl. 1950s-1960s)
Kent and Allen 197
Malthus, Thomas (1766–1834)
Wikipedia
Manningham, Thomas (1684–1750)
Rector of Slinfold and Selsey, Sussex, and prebendary of Chichester Cathedral; botanised in Cambridgeshire and Sussex.
CCEd | Herbaria@Home | Desmond 465 | Kent and Allen 197
Mansel, Spencer Perceval (1797–1862)
Desmond 465
Manser, Lucy (1814–1903)
Desmond 466 | Kent and Allen 198
Mant, Richard (1776–1848)
Desmond 466
Maplet, John (1541–1592)
Rector of Great Leighs, Essex, then vicar of Northolt, Middlesex; author of A Greene Forest, or, A Naturall Historie (1567) which deals with minerals, plants, and animals.
CCEd | ODNB | Desmond 466
Marle, Robert (fl. 1900s-1910s)
The Rev. Robert Marle British Land and Freshwater Shell Collection is at Bristol Museum.
Desmond 468
Marsh, Thomas Orlebar (1749–1831)
Desmond 469 | Kent and Allen 199
Marshall, Charles (c. 1747–1818)
Desmond 469
Marshall, Edward Shearburn (1858–1919)
Desmond 469 | Kent and Allen 199
Marshall, Humphry (1722–1801)
Quaker botanist active in Pennsylvania, author of Arbustrum americanum: the American grove, or, An alphabetical catalogue of forest trees and shrubs, natives of the American United States (1785)
BHL | Quakers | Wikipedia | Desmond 469
Marsham, Henry Philip (1817–1892)
Desmond 470 | Kent and Allen 199
Martin, William Keble. See Keble Martin, William
Martyn, Thomas (1735–1825)
Wikipedia | Armstrong 63 | Desmond 472 | Kent and Allen 200
Martyn, Thomas Waddon (–1918)
Herbaria@Home | Desmond 472 | Kent and Allen 200
Maskelyne, Nevil (1732–1811)
Wikipedia
Mason, Francis (1799–1874)
Desmond 473
Mason, William (1724–1797)
Rector of Aston cum Aughton, Yorkshire, and canon of York Minster. Poet, and garden designer. Gardens include Nuneham Courtenay, Oxfordshire. Poems include An Heroic Epistle to Sir William Chambers (1773) and The English Garden (3 vols, 1772-82).
BHL | CCEd | ODNB | Wikipedia | Desmond 473
Mason, William Wright (1853–1932)
Desmond 474 | Kent and Allen 200
Mateer, Samuel (1835–1893)
Desmond 475
Mather, Cotton (1663–1728)
Congregationalist minister in Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony. Celebrated for numerous medical and botanical achievments, including work on innoculation and plant hybridisation. Prolific author including scientific works The Christian Philosopher (1721)
ODNB | Royal Society | Wikipedia | Desmond 475
Mathieson, P. (–1931)
Kent and Allen 201
Maude, Mary Fowler (1819–1913)
Desmond 477
Mavor, William Fordyce (1758–1837)
Desmond 477
Maxwell, Robert David (1841–1926)
Congregationalist minister in Goole, Yorkshire, and county recorder for conchology.
Armstrong 144
McCarthy, John (c.1835–)
Missionary with the China Inland Mission; cross China to Burma and collected plants
Desmond 448
McConachie, George (1840–1901)
Desmond 449
McConachie, William (1864–1931)
Minister of Lauder church, Berwickshire,and author of Close to Nature's Heart (1908), In the Lap of the Lammermoors (1913), and The Glamour of the Glen: Nature Studies in the Lammermoors (1930).
McCosh, James (1811–1894)
Desmond 449
McMurtrie, John (1831–1912)
Kent and Allen 196
Megaw, William Rutledge (1885–1953)
Desmond 481 | Kent and Allen 202
Meyer, Horace Rollo (1868–1953)
Desmond 484
Michell, John (1724–1795)
Rector of Thornhill, Yorkshire, and earlier Compton and then Havant, Hampshire. Geoloogist and astronomer, author of Conjectures concerning the cause, and observations upon the phaenomena of earthquakes (1760)
BHL | CCEd | ODNB | Royal Society | Wikipedia | Armstrong 3, 113-16 | Challinor 198
Miles, Henry (1698–1763)
Presbyterian and, before that, congregationalist minister at Tooting, Surrey. FRS. Essays on bryophytes and meteorology in Philosophical Transactions.
ODNB | Royal Society | Wikipedia | Desmond 486
Miller, John Fletcher (1816–1856)
Quaker meteorologist who pioneered the use of mathematical modelling in meteorology
Quakers
Miller, Joseph Kirkman (1785–1855)
Desmond 487 | Kent and Allen 204
Miller, William (c. 1655–1753)
Quaker 'Patriach' from Hamilton, Lanarkshire, who became the first of at least three William Millers working as gardeners and nursurymen at Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh.
Desmond 488
Milne, Colin (1743–1815)
Desmond 490
Milner, Walter Metcalfe Holmes (1859–)
Kent and Allen 205
Mitchinson, John (1833–1918)
Desmond 492 | Kent and Allen 205
Molineux, James (1791–1873)
Armstrong 179 | Desmond 494 | Kent and Allen 205
Moore, Henry Kingsmill (1853–1943)
Desmond 497
Moore, Hugh (1784–c. 1856)
Desmond 497
Moore, John (1801–1888)
Vicar of Kilcoo, on retirement in 1853 began work on gardens at Rowallane, Co Down.
Desmond 497
Moran, James Joseph Conleth (1886–1959)
Desmond 498
Moreton, Charles Oscar (1888–1977)
Desmond 499
Morris, Francis Orpen (1810–1891)
Armstrong 7, 14, 74-76, 77-78, 98, 148, 172, 180 | Desmond 501 | Kent and Allen 207
Morris, Marmaduke Charles Orpen (1844–1935)
Rector of Nunburnholme, Yorkshire, son of Francis Orpen Morris. An antiquarian who also recorded local flowers.
Armstrong 15
Morton, John (1671–1726)
Rector of Great Oxendon, Northamptonshire. Botanist and FRS. Author of The Natural History of Northamptonshire, with some account of the Antiquities (1712)
Herbaria@Home | ODNB | Royal Society | Wikipedia | Desmond 501 | Kent and Allen 208
Mossop, John (1797–1873)
Kent and Allen 208
Moule, George Evans (1828–1912)
Missionary and first Anglican bishop of mid-China; collected some plants for Henry Fletcher Hance
Wikipedia | Desmond 503
Mount, William (1545–1602)
Rector of Leybourne, Kent, chaplain to Lord Burghley, and Master of the Savoy Hospital, London. Apparently botanised in Kent (Desmond).
CCEd | ODNB | Desmond 504
Moxon, Elizabeth Charlotte (1790–1884)
Desmond 504 | Kent and Allen 208
Moxon, George Brown (1794–1866)
Desmond 504
Muehlenberg, Gotthilf Heinrich Ernst (1753–1815)
Desmond 505
Munford, George (1794–1871)
Desmond 506 | Kent and Allen 209
Murley, Charles Hemsted (1822–1873)
Desmond 507 | Kent and Allen 209
Murray, Desmond Patrick (1887–1967)
Desmond 508 | Kent and Allen 209
Murray, Richard Paget (1842–1908)
Desmond 509 | Kent and Allen 209
Myles, Percy Watkins Fenton (1849–1891)
Desmond 510
Nairne, Alexander Kyd (fl. 1860s-1890s)
Bombay civil servant whose works, including The Flowering Plants of Estern India (London, 1894) are marked as being by 'The Rev. Alexander Kyd Nairne'.
BHL | Desmond 511
Neck, Aaron (1769–1852)
Desmond 512
Neckham, Alexander (1157–1217)
Abbot of Cirencester Abbey, Gloucestershire, theologian, poet, and pioneer of the magnetic compass; author of a natural history: De naturis rerum.
ODNB | Wikipedia | Armstrong 33-35 | Desmond 512
Needham, John Turberville (1713–1781)
Roman Catholic priest - the first to be elected FRS. Microscopist. Author of New Microscopical Discoveries (1745) and Observations upon the generation, composition, and decomposition of animal and vegetable substances (1749)
BHL | ODNB | Royal Society | Wikipedia | Desmond 512
Nelson, John Gudgeon (1818–1882)
Desmond 513
New, Charles (1840–1875)
Desmond 514
Newbould, William Williamson (1819–1886)
Desmond 515 | Kent and Allen 210
Newdigate, Charles Alfred (1863–1942)
Desmond 515 | Kent and Allen 210
Newman, Edward (1801–1876)
Quaker entomologist, botanist,and ornithologist, author of numerous works on insects and ferns; founder member of the Entomological Society of London.
BHL | Herbaria@Home | ODNB | Quakers | Wikipedia | Kent and Allen 210
Newnham, Christopher A. (fl. 1840s)
Kent and Allen 211
Newton, Thomas (c. 1542–1607)
Rector of Little Ilford, Essex; poet, theologian, physician, and botanist; author of An Herbal for the Bible (1587)
ODNB | Wikipedia | Desmond 516
Nicholls, Norton (c. 1741–1809)
ODNB | Desmond 517
Nicolay, Charles Grenfell (1815–1897)
Armstrong 162-64
Nicolson, William (1655–1727)
Bishop of Carlise, Derry, and (very briefly) archbishop of Cashel and Emly. Historian of Northumbria, linguist, antiquary, geologist, and botanist. MS Catalogus Plantarum Angliae (1690) published 1981.
Herbaria@Home | ODNB | Royal Society | Wikipedia | Desmond 518 | Kent and Allen 212
Norman, Alfred Merle (1831–1918)
Armstrong 5, 103 | Desmond 521 | Kent and Allen 212
North, Brownlow (1741–1820)
Bishop of Winchester and honorary member of the Linnean Society; elected 1800 for his keen interest in botany, which he shared with his wife.
ODNB | Wikipedia
North, Isaac William (1810–)
Desmond 521
Notcutt, John (1796–1827)
Desmond 522 | Kent and Allen 212
Notcutt, William (fl. 1840s)
Kent and Allen 213
Notwell, W.J.
Herbaria@Home | Kent and Allen 213
Nutt, William Harwood (1869–1943)
London Missionary Society at Fwambo and Kambole in Central Africa
Desmond 523
O'Mahoney, Thaddeus (1821–1903)
Desmond 527
O'Meara, Eugene (c. 1815–1880)
Desmond 527
Oulton, Richard (1812–1880)
Desmond 529 | Kent and Allen 214
Owen, M.C. (1802–1854)
Desmond 530
Owston, Thomas (1809–1895)
Desmond 530 | Kent and Allen 215
Pagan, John (1830–1909)
Wikipedia | Desmond 531 | Kent and Allen 215
Page-Roberts, Frederick (1844–1927)
Vicar of Strathfieldsaye, Hampshire, and grower of roses
Desmond 531
Painter, William Hunt (1835–1910)
Desmond 532 | Kent and Allen 215
Paley, William (1743–1805)
Armstrong 4, 5, 135, 171, 180
Palmer, Samuel (1768–)
Kent and Allen 216
Parish, Charles Samuel Pollock (1822–1897)
Desmond 534 | Kent and Allen 216
Parish, William Douglas (1833–1904)
ODNB
Parker, Charles Eyre (1822–1895)
Desmond 535 | Kent and Allen 216
Parkinson, Sydney (c. 1745–1771)
Quaker botanical illustrator from Edinburgh; first European artist to visit Australia, New Zealand and Tahiti on James Cook's 1768 voyage, during which he died.
ODNB | Quakers | Wikipedia | Desmond 536
Parkinson, William (fl. 1800s-1820s)
Apparently a dissenting minister in Loughborough who sent plants to James Edward Smith in 1824 (Desmond)
Desmond 536
Pasmore, Henry (–c. 1699)
Sent plants to James Petiver and apparently died in Jamaica
CCEd | Desmond 539
Paterson, Nathaniel (1787–1871)
Church of Scotland and later Free Church minister, St. Andrews, Glasgow; moderator in 1850. Horticulturalist, geologist, and keen angler; author of The Manse Garden (1836). Accompanied D. Landsborough in Arran.
BHL | ODNB | Wikipedia
Paterson, Thomas White (fl. 1910s)
Kent and Allen 217
Patrick, William (fl. 1830s)
Desmond 539
Paul, David (1845–1929)
Desmond 540
Paul, Thomas (1724–1798)
Dean of Cashel and rector of Aghnamullen, Co. Cavan. Designed a garden at Cootehill, Co. Cavan.
Wikipedia | Desmond 540
Peach, Charles Pierrepont (1829–1886)
Vicar of Appleton-le-Street, Yorkshire, and a keen gardener.
Desmond 541
Peck, Charles William (1867–1916)
Desmond 543 | Kent and Allen 218
Pemberton, Joseph Hardwick (1852–1926)
Desmond 544
Penneck, Henry (1801–1862)
Curate at Morvah, Cornwall, and had a herbarium
Desmond 545 | Kent and Allen 219
Penny, Charles William (1837–1898)
Herbaria@Home | Desmond 545 | Kent and Allen 219
Penny, Thomas (1532–1589)
Prebendary of Newington, St Paul's Cathedral; later a physician; botanist, herbalist, and entomologist; posthumous contributor to the Insectorum, sive, Minimorum animalium theatrum or Theatre of Insects (written 1589, pub. 1634).
BHL | CCEd | Herbaria@Home | ODNB | Wikipedia | Desmond 545 | Kent and Allen 219
Peter, John (1833–1877)
Desmond 548
Phelps, William (1776–1856)
Desmond 550
Pickard-Cambridge, Frederick Octavius (1860–1905)
Briefly curate at St Cuthbert's, Carlisle, biological illustrator, arachnologist, nephew of Octavius Pickard-Cambridge
Wikipedia
Pickard-Cambridge, Octavius (1828–1917)
Armstrong 5, 6, 11, 102-103, 173
Pinder, George (1813–1890)
Desmond 553 | Kent and Allen 221
Playfair, John (1748–1819)
Wikipedia
Playfair, Patrick M. (1858–1924)
Desmond 555 | Kent and Allen 222
Plues, Margaret (c. 1840–1903)
Mother Superior of St Maur's convent, Weybridge, Surrey, and earlier the author of numerous popular books on ferns, mosses, and grasses
Wikipedia | Desmond 556
Pococke, Richard (1704–1765)
Successively bishop of Ossory, Elphin, and Meath. Explorer and pioneer mountaineer, author of Description of the East (1743-45). Travels in England, Ireland, and Scotland published posthumously and contain much botanical and geological information.
ODNB | Royal Society | Wikipedia | Desmond 557
Pollexfen, John Hutton (1813–1899)
Herbaria@Home | Desmond 557 | Kent and Allen 222
Polwhele, Richard (1760–1838)
Desmond 557
Poole, John (1771–1857)
Desmond 558 | Kent and Allen 222
Potter, Michael Cressé (1858–1948)
Desmond 559 | Kent and Allen 223
Powell, Thomas (1809–1887)
Desmond 561
Preston, Thomas Arthur (1838–1905)
Desmond 563 | Kent and Allen 224
Price, Rees (1807–1869)
Desmond 564
Priestley, Joseph (1733–1804)
Royal Society | Desmond 564
Primavesi, Anthony Leo (1917–2011)
Wikipedia | Kent and Allen 224
Pulleine, John James (1842–1913)
Desmond 566 | Kent and Allen 225
Purchas, William (1823–1903)
Herbaria@Home | Armstrong 19-20, 54, 131, 174 | Desmond 567 | Kent and Allen 225
Radcliffe, John (1749–1828)
Desmond 570
Radclyffe, William Frederick (c. 1801–1880)
Desmond 570
Randolph, Francis (1713–1797)
Rector of Shorwell, Isle of Wight, and Langridge, Somerset; perpetual curate of Warborough, Oxfordshire. Principal of Alban Hall, Oxford. Obituary in Gentleman's Magazine (1797) notes he was 'a skilful botanist'.
CCEd | Desmond 572
Rauthmell, Richard (fl. 1720s-1740s)
Apparently curate of Whitewell, perhaps later vicar of Tunstall, both Lancashire. Antiquarian who kept a herbarium; author of Antiquitates bremetonacenses: Or, The Roman antiquities of Overborough (1746) about Over Burrow Roman fort, Lancashire.
Herbaria@Home | Desmond 573 | Kent and Allen 226
Raven, Charles Earle (1885–1964)
Herbaria@Home | Wikipedia | Armstrong 31, 32, 34, 36, 37, 47, 49, 79-80, 97 | Desmond 573 | Kent and Allen 226
Ravenshaw, Thomas Fitzarthur Torin (1829–1882)
Desmond 573 | Kent and Allen 227
Rawnsley, Hardwicke Drummond (1851–1920)
Wikipedia | Armstrong 10, 149-50
Rawson, A. (1818–1891)
Vicar of Bromley Common, Kent. Flower breeder. Mentioned by Darwin in Origin of Species.
Desmond 574
Ray, John (1627–1705)
Preacher and lecturer at Cambridge, botanist, ornithologist, taxonomist, natural theologian; author of many works including Catalogus plantarum Angliae (1670), Methodus plantarum nova (1682), and The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation
BHL | CCEd | Herbaria@Home | ODNB | Royal Society | Wikipedia | Armstrong 2, 4, 17, 45-50, 54, 60, 67, 80, 84, 85, 96-97, 110, 126-27, 171 | Desmond 574 | Kent and Allen 227
Reade, Joseph Bancroft (1801–1870)
Desmond 575
Reader, Henry Peter (1850–1929)
Desmond 576 | Kent and Allen 227
Reed, James (fl. 1690s)
Quaker horticulturalist who went on a seed-collecting expedition to Barbados and Madeira in 1689-90. Sent plants to James Petiver.
Desmond 576
Reeves, John William (1816–1862)
Desmond 577 | Kent and Allen 228
Relhan, Richard (1754–1823)
Desmond 578 | Kent and Allen 228
Rennie, James (1787–1867)
Wikipedia | Desmond 578
Reynolds, Edgar Marston (1892–1977)
Desmond 579 | Kent and Allen 228
Rhodes, Philip Grafton Mole (1885–1934)
Desmond 580 | Kent and Allen 229
Richards, Thomas (1710–1790)
Curate of Coychurch, Carmarthenshire. Lexicographer who included numerous Welsh plant names in his Welsh-English dictionary, Antiquae Linguae Britannicae Thesaurus (1753).
ODNB | Wikipedia | Desmond 581
Richardson, Lewis Fry (1881–1953)
Quaker meteorologist and mathematician, born Newcastle, weather observations in Cumberland, settled Paisley, Renfrewshire
ODNB | Quakers | Royal Society | Wikipedia
Richardson, William (–1768)
Vicar of Dacre, Cumberland, and master of Blencoe School. Author of moral tracts, including on earthquakes, and contributed botany to Hutchinson's History of Cumberland (1794)
CCEd | Armstrong 93 | Desmond 582
Richardson, William (1740–1820)
BHL | Desmond 582
Riddell, Thomas (c. 1805–1855)
Founder of the Masham Mechanics Institute, Yorkshire, apparently some interest in natural history.
Riddelsdell, Harry Joseph (1866–1941)
Desmond 583 | Kent and Allen 230
Ridley, Stuart Oliver (1853–1935)
Wikipedia | Desmond 583 | Kent and Allen 230
Roberts, Henry (c. 1817–c. 1880)
Rector of Ashton, Chudleigh, Devon. Botanised in Hampshire. Herbarium at University of Birmingham.
Herbaria@Home | Kent and Allen 231
Robertson, Andrew (fl. 1790s-1840s)
Minister of St. Peter's, Inverkeithing, Fife, 1792-1845, and botanised in his parish.
Herbaria@Home | Desmond 586
Robertson, Archibald (1853–1931)
Desmond 586 | Kent and Allen 231
Robertson, John (fl. 1880s)
Apparently collected plants in British Honduras (Desmond)
Desmond 587
Robinson, George (c. 1824–1893)
Rector of Tartaraghan, Co. Armagh; contributed plant records
Desmond 587 | Kent and Allen 232
Robinson, Thomas (c. 1645–1719)
Rector of Ousby, Cumberland, and author of The anatomy of the earth (1694), New observations on the natural history of this world of matter (1696), and An essay towards a natural history of Westmorland and Cumberland (1709).
CCEd | ODNB | Armstrong 92 | Challinor 202 | Desmond 589
Rochford, Julian (1923–1993)
Benedictine monk at Ampleforth Abbey, Yorkshire, biology teacher, marine biologist, scuba diver.
Armstrong 179
Roffey, John (1860–1927)
Desmond 591 | Kent and Allen 233
Rogers, Frederick Arundel (1876–1944)
Herbaria@Home | Desmond 592 | Kent and Allen 233
Rogers, Thomas Ellis (c. 1782–1844)
Rector of Lackford, Suffolk, who kept a herbarium
CCEd | Kent and Allen 233
Rogers, William Moyle (1835–1920)
Desmond 592 | Kent and Allen 233
Ross, John (1842–1915)
Wikipedia | Desmond 595
Rowlands, Henry (1655–1723)
Rector of Llanidan, Anglesey; author of Mona Antiqua Restaurata: An Archaeological Discourse on the Antiquities, Natural and Historical, of the Isle of Anglesey (1723) and Idea agriculturae: the principles of vegetation asserted (1704, published 1764).
BHL | ODNB | Wikipedia | Desmond 597
Rudd, George Thomas (c. 1795–1847)
Wikipedia
Rufford, William Squire (1785–1836)
Desmond 599 | Kent and Allen 235
Rupp, Herbert Montague Rucher (1872–1956)
Armstrong 165-66
Rutherford, Andrew (1797–1854)
Desmond 600 | Kent and Allen 236
Sale, Henry Townsend (1840–1910)
Desmond 603 | Kent and Allen 236
Salesbury, William (c. 1520–c. 1584)
Welsh clergyman, apparently without parish, who translated the New Testament into Welsh and produced a manuscript Llysieulyfr (Herbal) in around 1570.
ODNB | Wikipedia | Desmond 605
Salmon, Nathanael (1675–1742)
Curate of Westmill, Hertfordshire. A 'fanatical nonjuror', he resigned in 1702. Later career as an antiquarian of Hertfordshire, Surrey, and Essex, with 'some account' of natural history.
CCEd | ODNB | Wikipedia
Salwey, Thomas (1791–1877)
Desmond 605 | Kent and Allen 237
Sampson, George Vaughan (1763–1827)
Desmond 606
Sancroft, William (1617–1693)
Archbishop of Canterbury and previously Dean of York, then St Paul's. Apparently collected plants while in exile in Padua, Italy, in the 1650s.
CCEd | ODNB | Wikipedia | Desmond 606
Sandys, George William (c. 1812–1848)
Stipendary Curate at Coleford, Gloucestershire, botanised near Stroud.
Desmond 608 | Kent and Allen 238
Savile, Bourchier Wray (1817–1888)
Wikipedia | Armstrong 136
Saville, John (1736–1803)
Desmond 611
Sawyer, William Collinson (1831–1868)
Wikipedia | Desmond 611 | Kent and Allen 239
Scortechini, Benedeno (1845–1886)
Desmond 613
Scott, John (1730–1783)
Desmond 614
Scott, William Langston (1817–1888)
Desmond 615 | Kent and Allen 239
Sedgwick, Adam (1785–1873)
Prebendary of Norwich Cathedral, vicar of Shudy Camps, Cambridgeshire, and royal chaplain. Woodwardian Professor of Geology at Cambridge University.
BHL | CCEd | ODNB | Royal Society | Wikipedia | Armstrong 2, 19, 63, 111, 118, 120-23, 133, 146, 180 | Challinor 203
Sedgwick, John (c. 1660–1717)
Rector of Potterhanworth, Lincolnshire, and Prebendary of South Scarle, Lincoln Cathedral. Contributed plants to Sloane's herbarium
CCEd | Herbaria@Home | Desmond 617 | Kent and Allen 240
Sellwood, John Binford (c. 1830–1871)
Vicar of Shute, Devon. Entomologist specialising in Lepidoptera who also apparently kept a herbarium. Member of the Devonshire Association.
Herbaria@Home | Kent and Allen 240
Serle, William (1912–1992)
Wikipedia
Sharpe, Thomas (1798–1877)
Desmond 619
Sharrock, Robert (1630–1684)
Archdeacon of Winchester and rector of Bishop's Waltham and East Woodhay, Hampshire. Author of books on theology, natural law, and botany, including The History of the Propagation and Improvement of Vegetables (1660).
BHL | CCEd | ODNB | Wikipedia | Desmond 619
Shaw, Charles Edward (fl. 1950s-1960s)
Kent and Allen 241
Shaw, Thomas (1694–1751)
Chaplain to the English factory at Algiers, later principal of St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and Vicar of Bramley, Hampshire. Author of Travels, or, Observations Relating to Several Parts of Barbary and the Levant (1738) which describes more than 600 species.
BHL | CCEd | ODNB | Royal Society | Wikipedia | Desmond 620
Shawe, Joseph Jackson (1827–1882)
Moravian minister in Lower Ballinderry, County Antrim, and in Fulneck, Pudsey, Yorkshire; teacher at Fulneck School. Botanised locally.
Herbaria@Home | Desmond 620 | Kent and Allen 241
Sheffield, William (c. 1732–1795)
Desmond 621 | Kent and Allen 241
Sheppard, Revett (1778–1830)
Wikipedia | Armstrong 87
Shore, T. W. (1756–1822)
Desmond 625
Shuffrey, William Arthur (c. 1851–1912)
Kent and Allen 241
Sibree, James (1836–1929)
Desmond 626
Sibson, Edmund (1796–1847)
Desmond 626
Sidney, Edwin (1797–1872)
Desmond 627
Simpson, Samuel (c. 1802–1881)
Desmond 629 | Kent and Allen 243
Skelton, Philip (1707–1787)
Rector of Templecarn, Co. Donegal, then Fintona, Co. Tyrone. Satirist and religious controversialist who provided botanical and zoological observations to the Royal Society.
ODNB | Wikipedia | Desmond 630
Skinner, Richard (c. 1729–1795)
Desmond 631
Slater, Henry Horrocks (1851–1934)
Wikipedia | Armstrong 165, 168 | Desmond 632 | Kent and Allen 244
Smart, Christopher (1722–1771)
Poet and botanist. His preaching activities in Cambridge imply that he was ordained, although solid evidence is missing. Author of The Hop Garden. A Georgic (1752) and many other less botanical poems.
ODNB | Wikipedia
Smith, Alfred Cecil (c. 1854–)
Kent and Allen 245
Smith, Anne. See Borlase, Anne.
Smith, Caius (fl. 1830s)
Kent and Allen 245
Smith, Charles (1795–1862)
Armstrong 99
Smith, Colin (1802–1867)
Wikipedia | Desmond 635
Smith, David (c. 1830–1902)
Kent and Allen 245
Smith, Gerard Edwards (1804–1881)
Wikipedia | Armstrong 15-17 | Desmond 636 | Kent and Allen 245
Smith, Thomas Tunstall (1810–1893)
Vicar of Wirksworth, Lancashire. Lectured on fruit.
Armstrong 143
Smith, William (c.1700–1750)
Rector of St John's Parish, Nevis, and later rector of St Mary's Bedford. Possibly born Probus, Cornwall; to Queens College, Oxford, 1713. Author of The Natural History of Nevis (1745)
BHL | CCEd
Smith, William (1808–1857)
Desmond 639 | Kent and Allen 246
Smith, William Somerville (–1912)
Unitarian minister in Antrim, contributed weekly nature notes to 'The Northern Whig'.
Desmond 640
Smith-Pearse, Thomas Northmore Hart (1854–1943)
Desmond 640 | Kent and Allen 161
Smyth, John (fl. 1690s)
Minster to the Royal African Company in Cape Coast, Guinea (Petiver). Sent James Petiver West African plants.
Desmond 641
Sowerby, John (1824–1902)
Assistant Master, Marlborough College (1849-72), ordained in 1850. Organised the school's natural history society. Botanised in Somerset.
Kent and Allen 248
Spicer, William Webb (1820–1879)
Rector of Itchen Abbas, Hampshire, before travelling to Tasmania, 1874-78 where he collected plants.
Wikipedia | Desmond 646 | Kent and Allen 248
Sprat, Thomas (1635–1713)
Bishop of Rochester and Dean of Westminster; Founder member and fellow of the Royal Society. Author of a History of the Royal Society of London (London, 1667). Not primarily a naturalist but facilitated and recorded the work of others.
ODNB | Royal Society | Wikipedia
Stainforth, Francis John (1797–1866)
Desmond 649
Stanley, Arthur Penryn (1815–1881)
Armstrong 7
Stanley, Edward (1779–1849)
Bishop of Norwich and President of the Linnean Society in 1837-1849
Wikipedia
Staunton, William (1806–1860)
CCEd | Kent and Allen 249
Stearn, William Thomas (1911–2001)
Quaker botanist, linguist, and historian. President of the Linnean Society and the Ray Society. Author of Botanical Latin (1966) and A Dictionary of Plant Names for Gardeners (1992)
BHL | Herbaria@Home | ODNB | Wikipedia | Kent and Allen 249
Stebbing, Thomas Roscoe Rede (1835–1926)
Kent and Allen 249
Steggall, William (1804–1885)
Herbaria@Home | Desmond 652 | Kent and Allen 249
Stephens, Lewis (1654–1725)
Vicar of Treneglos and Warbstow, and later of Menheniot, Cornwall. Botanist and marine algologist.
Herbaria@Home | Desmond 653 | Kent and Allen 250
Stephens, William Bagshaw (1756–1800)
Domestic chaplain to Sir Robert Burdett, poet, and headmaster of Repton School; kept a rural journal and wrote nature poems.
ODNB
Stephenson, Thomas (1855–1948)
Desmond 653 | Kent and Allen 250
Stevens, Charles Abbot (1817–1908)
Herbaria@Home | Desmond 654 | Kent and Allen 250
Stevens, Lewis. See Stephens, Lewis.
Stevenson, Henry (c. 1690–1748)
Vicar of Elkesley, Nottinghamshire; author of gardening manuals including The young gard'ner’s director (1716) and The gentleman gard'ner's director (1744).
CCEd | Desmond 654
Stevenson, John (1836–1903)
Desmond 654
Stewart, James (1831–1905)
Desmond 655
Stewart, John (fl. 1760s)
Kent and Allen 251
Stobbs, William (1799–1863)
Desmond 657 | Kent and Allen 251
Stockdale, William (1767–1857)
Kent and Allen 251
Stonehouse, Walter (1597–1655)
Rector of Darfield, Yorkshire; gardener and botanist; discovered Viola pahistris and kept a crocus garden.
CCEd | Herbaria@Home | Desmond 658 | Kent and Allen 252
Stonestreet, William (1659–1716)
Rector of St Stephen Walbrook, London and prebendary of Chichester; botanist and fossil collecter. Corresponded widely with other naturalists including John Ray and James Petiver.
CCEd | Herbaria@Home | ODNB | Desmond 659 | Kent and Allen 252
Story, Thomas (c. 1670–1742)
Quaker landowner and aboriculturalist from Carlisle, Cumberland, who travelled widely in North America and the Caribbean.
ODNB | Quakers | Wikipedia | Desmond 659
Stowell, Hugh Ashworth (1830–1886)
Armstrong 101 | Desmond 660
Streatfield, George Sidney (1844–1922)
Kent and Allen 252
Stuart, John (1743–1821)
Desmond 662 | Kent and Allen 253
Stukeley, William (1687–1765)
Rector of All Saints, Stamford, Lincolnshire and later St George the Martyr, Bloomsbury. FRS. Antiquary, archaeologist, and geologist, considered 'the father of English archaeology'.
CCEd | ODNB | Royal Society | Wikipedia | Armstrong 93 | Challinor 205
Summers, William Henry (1850–1906)
Desmond 664
Sumner, John Henry Robertson (c. 1821–c. 1910)
Kent and Allen 253
Sutton, Charles (1756–1846)
Desmond 665 | Kent and Allen 253
Swayne, George (c. 1746–1827)
Desmond 667 | Kent and Allen 254
Swift, Jonathan (1667–1745)
Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin; improved the deanery garden in the style of Alexander Pope's garden at Twickenham and also landscaped the vicarage gardens at Laracor, Co. Meath. Satirised the Royal Society in Gulliver's Travels (1725).
ODNB | Wikipedia | Armstrong 66 | Desmond 668
Symonds, William Samuel (1818–1887)
Wikipedia | Armstrong 19-20, 54, 131, 145, 174 | Desmond 669
Symons, Jelinger (1776–1851)
Desmond 669 | Kent and Allen 254
Talbot, Theophilus (1824–1908)
Originally a Wesleyan Methodist, converted to Church of England in Isle of Man. Antiquarian and plant collector.
Desmond 670 | Kent and Allen 254
Taylor, Richard (1805–1873)
Armstrong 166 | Desmond 674
Taylor, William Ernest (1856–1927)
Desmond 674
Tenison-Woods, Julian Edmund (1832–1889)
Wikipedia | Armstrong 160-62 | Desmond 676
Tennant, Frederick Robert (1866–c. 1955)
Desmond 676 | Kent and Allen 256
Thickens, William (–1873)
Vicar of St. Thomas', Keresley, Warwickshire; communicated with John Ray.
Desmond 677
Thiselton-Dyer, Thomas Firminger (1848–)
Vicar of St Paul's Church, Penzance, then rector of Bayfield, Holt, Norfolk. Author of popular non-fiction including British Customs: Past and Present (1900) and English Folk-lore (1878) wich contained folklore of plants and birds.
Wikipedia | Desmond 677
Thompson, John Thomas (1752–1811)
Desmond 680
Thompson, Joseph Hesselgrave (1811–1889)
Desmond 680 | Kent and Allen 257
Thomson, George (1819–1878)
Missionary to Victoria (Limbé) in Cameroon where he collected plants to send to Edinburgh and Kew.
Wikipedia | Desmond 681
Thomson, Mary Marshall (Stewart) (1837–1858)
Desmond 683
Thomson, William Cooper (1829–1878)
Missionary at Old Calabar, modern day Akwa Akpa, Nigeria, collected plants.
Armstrong 155 | Desmond 683 | Kent and Allen 258
Thornhill, John (1815–1875)
Kent and Allen 258
Thornton, Charles Greenwood (1844–1904)
Desmond 684 | Kent and Allen 258
Threlkeld, Caleb (1676–1728)
Congregationalist minister at Huddlesceugh, Cumberland, dismissed in 1712, and botanist. Relocated to Dublin where he produced Synopsis stirpium Hibernicarum (1726), the 'first essay' on the native flora of Ireland.
Herbaria@Home | ODNB | Wikipedia | Desmond 684 | Kent and Allen 258
Todd, Hugh (c. 1657–1728)
Prebendary of Carlisle, rector of Arthuret, and vicar of Penrith, Cumberland; antiquarian who also published geographical research, including on the salt springs at Durham.
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Tomkins, Henry George (1826–1907)
Kent and Allen 259
Tonge, Israel (1621–1680)
Rector of St Mary Stayning, London, St Michael's, Wood Street, London, and Aston, Herefordshire. Creator, with Titus Oates, of the fabricated Popish Plot (1678-81). Contributed articles on tree sap to the Philosophical Transactions (1671).
ODNB | Wikipedia | Desmond 688
Toohey, Matthew (1854–1926)
Herbaria@Home | Desmond 688 | Kent and Allen 259
Toplady, Augustus (1740–1778)
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Topsell, Edward (c. 1572–1625)
Perpetual curate of St Botolph's, Aldersgate, London, and author of the bestiaries The History of Four-footed Beasts (1607) and The History of Serpents (1608).
BHL | ODNB | Wikipedia
Townsend, Joseph (1739–1816)
Armstrong 112 | Challinor 206 | Desmond 688
Tozer, Henry Fanshawe (1829–1916)
Desmond 689 | Kent and Allen 260
Tozer, John Savery (c. 1790–1836)
Desmond 689 | Kent and Allen 260
Traherne, John Montgomery (1788–1860)
Desmond 689 | Kent and Allen 260
Trimmer, Kirby (1804–1887)
Desmond 692 | Kent and Allen 260
Tristram, Henry Baker (1822–1906)
Royal Society | Armstrong 6, 7-8, 72-73, 78, 148, 173 | Desmond 692
Trott, Henry William (1857–)
Desmond 692 | Kent and Allen 261
Trusler, John (1735–1820)
Desmond 693
Tuck, Julian George (1851–1933)
Armstrong 76
Tuckwell, William (1829–1919)
Desmond 694
Turner, George Edward Weaver (1810–1869)
Desmond 696
Turner, William (c. 1509–1568)
Dean of Bath and Wells, Somerset, born Morpeth, Northumberland. Author of the first printed work on ornithology and one of the earliest English-language herbals. Described by Charles Raven as 'The first English scientist'.
BHL | CCEd | ODNB | Wikipedia | Armstrong 2, 43-45, 67, 81 | Desmond 697
Turner, William Y. (fl. 1870s-1880s)
Missionary in Papua New Guinea in the late 1770s and Falmouth, Jamaica, from 1884. Appears to have collected plants.
Desmond 697
Tyas, Robert (1811–1879)
Desmond 699
Tyso, Joseph (1774–1852)
Pastor of St Peter's Baptist Church, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, and nurseryman; author of The Ranunculus, how to Grow it (1847)
Desmond 699
Tyson, Michael (1740–1780)
Desmond 699
Usher, Robert (c. 1865–1943)
Desmond 700
Uvedale, Robert (1642–1722)
Rector of Orpington, Kent, and Barking, Suffolk; master of Enfield Grammar School, Middlesex; cultivated exotic plants and had one of the earliest English hothouses.
CCEd | Herbaria@Home | ODNB | Wikipedia | Desmond 701 | Kent and Allen 262
Vachell, George Harvey (1799–)
Desmond 702
Vaughan, Eliza (1863–1949)
Desmond 703 | Kent and Allen 263
Vaughan, John (1855–1922)
Desmond 703 | Kent and Allen 263
Vize, John Edward (1831–1916)
Desmond 706
Vossius, Isaac (1618–1689)
Dutch scholar from Leiden who became a Canon of Windsor. Edited Pliny's Natural History (1669)
ODNB | Royal Society | Wikipedia | Desmond 707
Waddell, Coslett Herbert (1858–1919)
Desmond 708 | Kent and Allen 264
Waghorne, Arthur Charles (1851–1900)
Desmond 709
Wait, Walter Oswald (1852–1936)
Desmond 709
Wakefield, Priscilla (1751–1832)
Quaker author and philanthopist, author of An Introduction to Botany (1796)
Quakers | Wikipedia | Desmond 709
Wakefield, Thomas (1836–1901)
Desmond 709
Walker, Francis Augustus (1841–1905)
Desmond 710 | Kent and Allen 265
Walker, James (1794–1854)
Desmond 711
Walker, John (1731–1803)
Wikipedia | Armstrong 177 | Desmond 711 | Kent and Allen 265
Walker, Richard (1679–1764)
Rector of Thorpland then Upwell, Norfolk, and professor of moral philosophy at Cambridge. Botanist and horticulturalist. Founded Cambridge Botanic Garden, described in A Short Account of the late Donation of a Botanic Garden to the University of Cambridge
CCEd | ODNB | Wikipedia | Desmond 711
Walker, Richard (1791–1870)
BHL | Herbaria@Home | Desmond 711 | Kent and Allen 265
Waller, Horace (1833–1896)
Desmond 713
Wallis, John (1714–1793)
Curate of Billingham, Co. Durham, and before that several curacies in Northumberland; antiquary and botanist, author of The Natural History and Antiquities of Northumberland (1769)
BHL | CCEd | ODNB | Wikipedia | Desmond 714
Walsh, Robert (1772–1852)
Desmond 715
Walshe, Thomas J. (1861–1938)
Desmond 715
Ward, James Clifton (1843–1880)
Wikipedia | Armstrong 123 | Challinor 207
Waring, Holt (1766–1850)
Desmond 718
Waters, James (1780–1867)
Stipendiary minister in St. Elizabeth Parish, Jamaica (probably at Heathfield); later Rector of Penshaw, Co. Durham. Collected plants, apparently now at Kew.
CCEd | Desmond 721
Watkins, William (fl. 1750s-1780s)
Rector of Llanelieu, Brecknockshire, and earlier curate of Hay on Wye, Breconshire; author of A treatise on forest-trees (1753)
CCEd | Wikipedia | Desmond 721
Watts, John Stanhawe (1748–1813)
Desmond 724
Watts, William Walter (1856–1920)
Desmond 724
Webb, Damien (1918–1990)
Armstrong 179 | Kent and Allen 269
Webb, Robert Holden (1806–1880)
Desmond 726 | Kent and Allen 269
Webster, George Russell Bullock. See Bullock-Webster, George Russell
Webster, James (1854–1923)
Desmond 727
Welch, Adam Cleghorn (1864–1943)
Wikipedia | Kent and Allen 270
Wenyon, Charles (1848–1924)
Desmond 730
Westcott, Brooke Foss (1825–1901)
Armstrong 61
Weston, S. (fl. 1820s)
Kent and Allen 271
Whan, William Taylor (1829–1901)
Desmond 731 | Kent and Allen 271
Wheler, George (1651–1724)
Rector of Houghton-le-Spring, County Durham, and prebendary of Durham Cathedral; travel writer, antiquary, and botanist. Sent plants to John Ray and others. Introduced Hypericum calycinum
(rose of Sharon) to British Isles. Herbarium at Oxford University.
Herbaria@Home | ODNB | Royal Society | Wikipedia | Desmond 733 | Kent and Allen 271
Whewell, William (1794–1866)
Wikipedia | Armstrong 111
White, Edward (c. 1793–1845)
Chaplain of St. Andrew's Cathedral, Singapore. Collected plants.
Desmond 733
White, Gilbert (1720–1793)
Perpetual Curate of Selborne, Hampshire and Vicar of Moreton Pinkney, Northamptonshire; celebrated author of The Natural History of Selborne (1789).
BHL | CCEd | ODNB | Wikipedia | Armstrong 1-2, 3, 10, 11, 17, 65-67, 80, 83-87, 96, 166, 175 | Desmond 734
White, Henry (1733–1788)
Armstrong 18 | Desmond 734
White, John (1727–1780)
Chaplain of Gibraltar garrison and, later, vicar of Blackburn, Lancashire. Began work on a Fauna Calpensis (Animals of Gibraltar) of which only the introduction and some sketches survive. Brother of Gilbert White.
CCEd | Armstrong 18, 154-55
White, Sampson (1765–1825)
Rector of Maidford, Northamptonshire, Vicar of Upavon, Hampshire; nephew of Gilbert White. Kept a nature diary.
Whitear, William (1778–1826)
Desmond 735 | Kent and Allen 272
Whitehead, Edward (1789–1827)
Desmond 735
Whitehead, Henry (1817–1884)
Desmond 735
Whitmee, Samuel James (1838–1925)
Desmond 737
Whytehead, William (1729–1817)
Desmond 738 | Kent and Allen 273
Wickham, Archdale Palmer (1855–1935)
Wikipedia | Armstrong 99
Wilkins, John (1614–1672)
Bishop of Chester, theologian, and natural philosopher. Founder member of The Royal Society, author of Of the Principles and Duties of Natural Religion (1675), and numerous scientific works.
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Wilkinson, Henry Marlow (1828–)
Kent and Allen 274
Wilkinson, John Frome (1850–)
Herbaria@Home | Wikipedia | Kent and Allen 274
Wilks, William (1843–1923)
Desmond 741
Williams, Charles (1796–1866)
Desmond 741
Williams, Edward (1762–1833)
Desmond 741 | Kent and Allen 274
Williams, H. (fl. 1870s)
Kent and Allen 274
Williams, J. (fl. 1870s-1890s)
Missionary, apparently an 'Indian doctor', at Tank and Dera Ismail Khan
Desmond 742
Williams, Theodore (1785–1875)
Desmond 743
Williams, Thomas (c. 1545–c. 1623)
Curate at Trefriw, Caernarvonshire, later a recusant, physician, and lexicographer; his MS Llyfr Llysiau (Welsh dictionary) contained a list of Welsh plant names.
ODNB | Desmond 743
Williams, William Leonard (1829–1916)
Desmond 743
Williamson, Alexander (1829–1890)
Desmond 743 | Kent and Allen 275
Wilson, Alexander Stoddart (1854–1909)
Desmond 746 | Kent and Allen 276
Wilson, Charles Thomas (1852–1917)
Desmond 746
Wilson, Francis Robert Muter (1832–1903)
Desmond 746
Wilson, George (fl. 1830s-1870s)
Kent and Allen 276
Wilson, James (1855–1905)
Desmond 747
Wiltshire, Thomas (1826–1902)
Armstrong 111
Wingate, William John (1846–1912)
Vicar of Marley Hill, Co. Durham; author of A Preliminary list of Durham Diptera. with Analytical Tables (1906)
Kent and Allen 277
Witham, Gilbert (–1684)
Rector of Garforth, Yorkshire; collected plants and corresponded with John Ray and others.
CCEd | Desmond 751
Witts, Edward Francis (1813–1886)
Desmond 752 | Kent and Allen 277
Wolley-Dod, Charles (1826–1904)
Desmond 752
Wolseley, R. (1772–1815)
Desmond 752
Wood, Henry Hayton (1825–1882)
Herbaria@Home | Desmond 753 | Kent and Allen 278
Wood, Henry William (c. 1828–c. 1895)
Kent and Allen 278
Wood, John George (1827–1889)
Briefly curate of of St Thomas the Martyr, Oxford, before dedicating time to natural history writing. Author of dozens of works of popular natural history with a theological angle.
Wikipedia | Armstrong 76
Wood, Robert (1796–1883)
Desmond 753 | Kent and Allen 278
Wood, William (1745–1808)
Desmond 754 | Kent and Allen 278
Woodall, Edward H. (1843–1937)
Desmond 754
Woodhouse, Thomas (1830–1891)
Desmond 755
Woodruffe-Peacock, Edward Adrian (1858–1922)
Vicar of All Saints, Cadney, Lincolnshire, and pioneer of ecology; author of the Natural History of Lincolnshire (1898) and A Check-List of Lincolnshire Plants (1909)
BHL | Wikipedia | Armstrong 57-59, 62-63, 180 | Desmond 755 | Kent and Allen 278
Woods, Francis Henry (1850–1915)
Desmond 755 | Kent and Allen 278
Woolls, William (1814–1893)
Wikipedia | Armstrong 165 | Desmond 757
Wray, John Francis (1801–1859)
Desmond 758 | Kent and Allen 279
Wright, Lawson Sant (1868–1918)
Kent and Allen 280
Yates, James (1789–1871)
Armstrong 179-80 | Desmond 762
Yonge, James (1748–1797)
Desmond 762 | Kent and Allen 280
Young, Andrew John (1885–1971)
Armstrong 71 | Desmond 763
Young, George (1777–1848)
Challinor 210
Young, James Foster (fl. 1850s-1880s)
Kent and Allen 280
Young, James Reynolds (1807–1884)
Desmond 763 | Kent and Allen 280
Young, William Weston (1776–1847)
Quaker botanist, geologist, and botanical illustrator from Bristol; inventor of the firebrick.
Quakers | Wikipedia | Desmond 764
Zula, Basil Patras (1796–1844)
Moravian minister at Kilwarlin, Co. Down. Greek cheiftain, birth name Vasili Zoulas, converted to Moravian church in Ireland; laid out Kilwarlin church garden to comemorate the Battle of Thermopylae.
Wikipedia | Desmond 765