Philip Brookes Mason
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Philip Brookes Mason (1842-1903)
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Dr. Philip Brookes Mason was born in Burton-on-Trent in Staffordshire in 1842. He was interested in natural history from a very young age and commenced his medical training in Glasgow at the age of 16. During his stay there he collected specimens from the Botanical Gardens.
He returned to Staffordshire and over many years continued his enthusiastic collecting of a wide variety of both plant and animal specimens. He had an almost perfect British herbarium, achieved through his wide travels across the country and by purchasing many other collections and merging them with his own. He built an extension to his home which became his private museum. He was a fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society, the Linnean and the Zoological Society.
After his death in 1903 his widow sold his collection at auction. His plant collections were bought by Bolton Museum in 1907. He co-authored a Flora of Burton on Trent and neighbourhood, and was, at one stage, President of the local natural history society.
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