William Hadden Beeby
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Mr William Hadden Beeby F.L.S (9/6/1849-4/1/1910)
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Biography
Born on 9th June 1849.
1866 Aged 17 was collecting plants in the Croydon area of Surrey, his home town, and had commenced his banking employment in the City of London.
1871 Founder member of Croydon Microscopical Club.
1878 Member of the Botanical Sub-committee of the Croydon Natural History and Scientific Society (then Croydon Microscopical and Natural History Club).
1886 First visit to Shetland Islands; continued to make summer visits for at least 20 years.
1887 Elected ALS.
1892 married Florence Emma Hardcastle, and moved to Thames Ditton, Surrey.
Died 4th January 1910.
Obituary: Journal of Botany (1910) 48 121-123.
Date Formats
Below are examples of numbers as written by Beeby, including the '7' beginning with a small serif:
During the 1870s, when writing the year, he had the habit of joining the '8' to serif of the following '7' in such a way that the latter looked like a '9', thus causing confusion with dates in the 1890s. Compare, below, 7th July 1872 with 7th August 1891:
A useful clue is that, generally, in the 1870s Beeby wrote out month names, but by the 1890s had adopted month numbers.
During the 1870s Beeby labeled several sheets with the year as '187_'
(e.g.sheet 396199; below):
Such dates have been recorded in the form '4/6/1870 to 4/6/1879'. It seems unlikely that Beeby inteded '1870' as there are sheets (e.g. 316676) where he writes this unambiguously.
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Inferred associations
collected with
associated with
- Botanical Exchange Club of The British Isles
- Edward Shearburn Marshall
- Arthur Bennett
- Augustin Ley
- William Richardson Linton
- Charles Bailey
- Edward Francis Linton
- Alfred Fryer
- Edward Palmer
- Frederick Janson Hanbury
- George Nicholson
- James Edgar Dandy
- George Taylor
- Richard McKay Scotland 1870s
- Frederick Arnold Lees
- Croydon Natural History and Scientific Society
- Frederick Townsend
- D J McCosh
- Robert Morton Middleton
- Andrew Bloxam
- William Moyle Rogers
- George Claridge Druce
- Henry Bromwich
- Botanical Society of London
- John Thomas Irvine Boswell-Syme
- William Frederick Miller
- James Walter White
- John Gilbert Baker
- Henry & James Groves
- John Edwards Griffith
- Hewett Cottrell Watson
- James Cosmo Melvill
- Henry Tuke Mennell
- Charles Edgar Salmon
- Andrew Brotherston
- William Hunt Painter
- Henry Elliott Fox
- James Groves
- William Booth Waterfall
- Hugh Neville Dixon
- John (Joannis) Fraser
- James Cunnack
- Henry Groves
- Frederick Thompson Mott
- John Roy
- Anthony Clive Jermy
- Elizabeth Anne Lomax
- Thomas Richard Archer Briggs
- Christopher David Preston
- Alexander Somerville
- George Horn
- Eyre Champion de Crespigny
- John Harbord Lewis
- Allan Octavian Hume
- James Fletcher
- Walter Waters Reeves
- James Eustace Bagnall
- John Ewbank Leefe
- Thomas Bates Blow
- William Curnow
- Svante Samuel Murbeck
- Richard Francis Towndrow
- Robert Large Baker
- Samuel Alexander Stewart
- David Elliston Allen
- William Edmund Beckwith
- L M Newman
- George Webster
- Reginald Wiliam Scully
- George Henry Kendrick Thwaites
- Leslie Beeching Hall
- Rachel Ford Thompson
- John Braybrooke Marshall
- Botanical Society & Exchange Club of The British Isles
- Richard Payne
- Frederic Henry Ward
- Thomas Howse
- Charles Edward Britton
- Watson Botanical Exchange Club
- Beverley Alan Miles
- Edward Morell Holmes
- Charlotte Ellen Palmer
- Albert John Crosfield
- Symers MacDonald Macvicar
- Marmaduke Alexander Lawson
- James Herbert Augustus Jenner
- James Henry Augustus Steuart
- Alexander Craig Christie
- Eliza Catherine White
- Francis Buchanan White
- William Gardiner
- A S Lean
- William Whitwell
- William Andrew Shoolbred
- Harold Goodman Dixon
- Joseph Woods
- Alfred James Wilmott
- H Fisher
- Alban Edward Lomax
- William Robert Sherrin
- Henry Smith Fisher
- James Thomas Powell
- William R Hayward
- Richard Vercoe Tellam
- John C Hutcheson
- F P Thompson
- William Irvine Fortescue
- Pierre M Taschereau
- Ernest Stanley Salmon
- John Ralfs
- Charles Augustus Wright
- W R Hayward
- Thomas J Foggitt
- Ernest Straker
- Henry Halcro Johnston
Collection activity by county
1862
1908
Examples of handwriting
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1881 |
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1872 Initials |
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