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oldnick
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 Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2013 8:23 am Post subject: Feedback request: Campanula patula (28902) |
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- Rudge not identified; maybe Edward Rudge d 1846, who has no other specimens in H@H however
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David Price
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Perhaps Edward Rudge of Evesham (1763-1846)
"His attention was early turned to botany, through the influence of his uncle, Samuel Rudge (d. 1817), a retired barrister, who formed an herbarium, which passed to his nephew." see Wikipedia article. |
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Chris Liffen
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Rudge :
Queen's College Oxford 1781 - matriculated but took no degree.
Published on the flora of Guiana.
Fellow of Society of Antiquaries, elected FLS in 1802, and Royal Society in 1805.
A genus of the botanical order Rubiaceae was named Rudgera - in his honour by R A Salisbury in 1806. |
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David Price
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The first supplement to Britten & Boulger has -
Rudge, Samuel (1728-1817): b. Thornhaugh, Northampton,
1728 ; d. Watlington, Oxon, 24 Jan. 1817. At Elstree, Herts,
thirty-eight years. High Sheriff of Northamptonsh., 1792.
Studied Botany from 1750, and made '' innumerable MS. notes
in almost every botanical work that he possessed.*' Nat. Hist,
library bequeathed to his nephew, Edward Budge. Gent. Mag.
1817, i. 181 ; Druoe, Fl. Berks, cxlvi. |
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