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