Augustin Ley
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Rev. Augustin Ley (3/4/1842-23/4/1911)
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Biography
Born in Hereford 3 April 1842, the son of the Rev. William Ley, who about that time became vicar of Sellack, near Ross, combined with the parish of Kings Capel.
He was educated at home and then at Oxford 1862-1865.
1867-1871 curate at Buxton Derbyshire.
Returned to Sellack, Herefordshire, to assist his father at Kings Capel (2km to the north, on the other side of the River Wye).
1878 married and became vicar of St Weonards (about 8km ESE of Sellack).
The marriage lasted only two and a half months as his wife died 16 April 1878.
1885 returned to Sellack to assist his ailing father.
1887 on the death of his father became vicar of Sellack.
1908 retired.
He was a member of Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club.
He traveled widely:
1863 Norway,
1873 the Alps,
1874 Cairngorms,
1876 Angus.
Sorbus minima was first discovered in 1893 by Ley. See the Wikipedia entry.
Mark Lawley has written a BIOGRAPHY.
A sample of his handwriting:
information included from the herbariaunited database
Inferred associations
collected with
- Spencer Henry Bickham
- William Andrew Shoolbred
- William Henry Purchas
- Edward Francis Linton
- Edward Shearburn Marshall
- William Moyle Rogers
associated with
- Botanical Exchange Club of The British Isles
- James B Phipps
- Allan Octavian Hume
- Charles Bailey
- F D Hanson
- George Claridge Druce
- Edward Shearburn Marshall
- Edward Francis Linton
- William Richardson Linton
- Watson Botanical Exchange Club
- William Andrew Shoolbred
- William Hadden Beeby
- James Edgar Dandy
- James Alfred Wheldon
- John Thomas Irvine Boswell-Syme
- Spencer Henry Bickham
- William Hunt Painter
- Henry Bromwich
- James Walter White
- William Henry Purchas
- Timothy C G Rich
- Harry Joseph Riddelsdell
- John P Savidge
- Hewett Cottrell Watson
- Frederick Townsend
- James Cosmo Melvill
- Richard Francis Towndrow
- Arthur Bennett
- John Gilbert Baker
- Henry & James Groves
- Anthony Hurt Wolley Dod
- Henry Elliott Fox
- L D Pitt
- Frederick Janson Hanbury
- John Harbord Lewis
- Andrew Brotherston
- John Braybrooke Marshall
- Thomas Richard Archer Briggs
- John Edwards Griffith
- James Groves
- Frederick Arnold Lees
- William Moyle Rogers
- William Bell
- Albert Bruce Jackson
- Alfred Fryer
- Chambre Corker Vigurs
- Victor Samuel Summerhayes
- Richard Spiers Standen
- Robert Large Baker
- Henry Groves
- Eric Frederic Drabble
- Peter Hamilton Raven
- Eliza Standerwick Gregory
- Harry Corbyn Levinge
- McTaggert Cowan
- John Cryer
- Charlotte Ellen Palmer
- Philip M Smith
- Peter Derek Sell
- Alfred James Wilmott
- Alexander Somerville
- James Cunnack
- John (Joannis) Fraser
- George Nicholson
- Hilda Lake Drabble
- Arthur Reginald Horwood
- Reginald Wiliam Scully
- Elizabeth Anne Lomax
- Frederick Thompson Mott
- Frances Louisa Foord-Kelcey
- Peter Ewing
- George Stephen West
- Edward Charles Wallace
- Ida Mary Roper
- Burton Mounsher Watkins
- Charles Edgar Salmon
- D J McCosh
- Robert Reid Mill
- Frederic Stratton
- George Taylor
- John Firminger Duthie
- Oxford University Herbarium
- R W David
- Eleonora Armitage
- Charles Edward Britton
- Thomas Bates Blow
- D M Bray
- Ida Margaret Hayward
- Coslett Herbert Waddell
- Albert Wilson
- Eyre Champion de Crespigny
- Samuel Alexander Stewart
- Lester Vallis Lester-Garland
- London Botanical Exchange Club
- Stanley Wilson Greene
- Stephen Troyte Dunn
- E F & W R Linton
- George Goode
- William Robert Sherrin
- Alfred William Bennett
- Harold Stuart Thompson
- Edward Walter Hunnybun
- Thomas Bruges Flower
- James Henry Augustus Steuart
- Druce Herbarium, Oxford
- George Webster
- Christopher Donald Pigott
- Charles Cardale Babington
- William Booth Waterfall
- Thomas Hilton
- Henry Smith Fisher
- J B Marshall
- William Turner Thiselton Dyer
- James Eustace Bagnall
- Ezekiel George Varenne
- Charles Edward Moss
- Reginald Henry Goode
- M A Hudson
- Frederick Hamilton Davey
- Dorcas Martha Higgins
- Joseph Adair
- Stanley Guiton
- Botanical Society & Exchange Club of The British Isles
- William West Bradford
- Henry Halcro Johnston
- Wood
- Siegfried Jost Casper
- Herbert Decimus Geldart
- M J Harvey
- John Ralfs
- Alexander Craig Christie
- Henry Maurice Drummond-Hay British Ornithologists' Union
- Thomas J Foggitt
- Rachel Ford Thompson
- J L Warren
- William Hodge
- Herbert William Pugsley
- Gustavus A Ornano St Brody
- Billiald
- William M Richardson
- Isaiah Waterloo Nicholson Keys
- Marmaduke Alexander Lawson
- Francis Alfred Hanbury
- John Gregory Hawkes University of Birmingham
- Peter Shaw Green
- Cambridge University
- James Frederick Crouch
- M A H
- Robert Desmond Meikle
- Botanical Exchange Club
- William Hillhouse
- J P Soutter
- Boswell
- William Irvine Fortescue
- Arthur Edward Wade
- Peter H Raven
- Samuel Gasking
- Esther Hopkins
- John Fraser
- Stuart Max Walters
- Robert Maulkin Lingwood
- Gertrude Ley
- Henry Tuke Mennell
- Donald Peter Young
- William Curnow
- Henry Southall
- William Philip Hiern
- Ernest Hutmacher
- William Barclay
- Walter Waters Reeves
- David Elliston Allen
- University Of Birmingham
- Charlotte L Peck
- J Roy
- H G Bull
- Ernest Stanley Salmon
- Francis Buchanan White
- Frederick Morgan Webb
- William Bell
- F P Thompson
- James Alexander Ratter
Collection activity by county
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