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Chris Liffen · Joined: 08 Oct 2007 Posts: 1850

Francis Ballard (18/3/1896-25/1/1976)

name:	Francis Ballard
dates:	18/3/1896-25/1/1976
type:	person
message board:	message board discussion about this botanist

Born 18.3.1896 North London
Initially worked as lab asst to Dr Drabble (hd of Botany) northern Poly.
1915 RA Medical Corps
1919 Staff of engineering firm - evening classes for London Univ degree
1927 Bot Asst to Dr Stapf FRS (Ed of Botanical Mag)
then temporary appt ay Kew herbarium - permanent staff in 1929
WW2 worked with Turrill, Hubbard and Summerhayes in Oxford, work for Admiralty.
1945 resumed his work on Ferns, but was also interested in scents and perfumes of flowers (article in New Scientist "The scents of flowers"); and photography.

Tom Humphrey · Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2014 11:01 pm Post subject:

Hi Chris,

Is this Francis Ballard the same person?
http://herbariaunited.org/collector/1731/

I'm not sure where the dates for that entry come from - on ancestry.co.uk I can only find someone who died in March 1976, rather than January.

There's also an odd conflict with Kent&Allen which lists the dob as 1897.

Chris Liffen · Joined: 08 Oct 2007 Posts: 1850

Took info above from a Kew Publication (Kew Guild) ......
There is some further information here:
http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/vcdf/detail?inst_id=132&coll_id=17193
Didn't think I added a dod.
Feel free to delete ......

and

oldnick · Joined: 09 Oct 2009 Posts: 5472

Any suggestions for his co-collectors, E Ballard and E A Golby?

Guest · Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2014 10:13 am Post subject:

Nothing that I can find.

Roger Horton · Joined: 02 Oct 2012 Posts: 1545 Location: Cambridge, UK

Currently searching collecting dates in h@h finds:

E A Golby 8/9/1928 - 10/7/1929
E Ballard 12/7/1930 - 8/9/1931

Could it be that Miss Golby became Mrs Ballard at some time in 1929/30 ?

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