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
- John Braybrooke Marshall
- Andrew Brotherston
- Thomas Richard Archer Briggs
- John Edwards Griffith
- Frederick Arnold Lees
- James Groves
- William Bell
- William Moyle Rogers
- Albert Bruce Jackson
- Chambre Corker Vigurs
- Alfred Fryer
- Richard Spiers Standen
- Victor Samuel Summerhayes
- Henry Groves
- Robert Large Baker
- Eric Frederic Drabble
- Eliza Standerwick Gregory
- Peter Hamilton Raven
- Harry Corbyn Levinge
- John Cryer
- McTaggert Cowan
- Charlotte Ellen Palmer
- Philip M Smith
- Peter Derek Sell
- Alfred James Wilmott
- Alexander Somerville
- James Cunnack
- John (Joannis) Fraser
- George Nicholson
- Hilda Lake Drabble
- Reginald Wiliam Scully
- Arthur Reginald Horwood
- Frederick Thompson Mott
- Frances Louisa Foord-Kelcey
- Elizabeth Anne Lomax
- Peter Ewing
- George Stephen West
- Ida Mary Roper
- Edward Charles Wallace
- D J McCosh
- Charles Edgar Salmon
- Burton Mounsher Watkins
- Robert Reid Mill
- Frederic Stratton
- George Taylor
- John Firminger Duthie
- Eleonora Armitage
- R W David
- Oxford University Herbarium
- 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
- Edward Walter Hunnybun
- Harold Stuart Thompson
- James Henry Augustus Steuart
- Thomas Bruges Flower
- Christopher Donald Pigott
- Druce Herbarium, Oxford
- George Webster
- Charles Cardale Babington
- William Booth Waterfall
- Thomas Hilton
- Henry Smith Fisher
- J B Marshall
- William Turner Thiselton Dyer
- Ezekiel George Varenne
- James Eustace Bagnall
- M A Hudson
- Charles Edward Moss
- Frederick Hamilton Davey
- Reginald Henry Goode
- Dorcas Martha Higgins
- Stanley Guiton
- Joseph Adair
- M J Harvey
- Botanical Society & Exchange Club of The British Isles
- Henry Halcro Johnston
- Siegfried Jost Casper
- Herbert Decimus Geldart
- William West Bradford
- Wood
- Henry Maurice Drummond-Hay British Ornithologists' Union
- Alexander Craig Christie
- J L Warren
- Rachel Ford Thompson
- William Hodge
- Thomas J Foggitt
- John Ralfs
- Marmaduke Alexander Lawson
- Herbert William Pugsley
- Isaiah Waterloo Nicholson Keys
- Gustavus A Ornano St Brody
- Cambridge University
- Peter Shaw Green
- Robert Desmond Meikle
- Francis Alfred Hanbury
- M A H
- Billiald
- John Gregory Hawkes University of Birmingham
- William M Richardson
- James Frederick Crouch
- Robert Maulkin Lingwood
- William Hillhouse
- Esther Hopkins
- Peter H Raven
- Stuart Max Walters
- Botanical Exchange Club
- Boswell
- Samuel Gasking
- Arthur Edward Wade
- J P Soutter
- John Fraser
- William Irvine Fortescue
- Donald Peter Young
- William Philip Hiern
- Henry Tuke Mennell
- Henry Southall
- David Elliston Allen
- Ernest Hutmacher
- William Barclay
- Gertrude Ley
- William Curnow
- Walter Waters Reeves
- James Alexander Ratter
- Frederick Morgan Webb
- Charlotte L Peck
- H G Bull
- University Of Birmingham
- William Bell
- Ernest Stanley Salmon
- F P Thompson
- J Roy
- Francis Buchanan White
Collection activity by county
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