Edward Williams
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Rev. Edward Williams (1762-1833)
Biography
Edward (1762-3/1/1833) son of Edward Williams of Eaton Mascott. Educated at Repton School and Pembroke College, Oxford. BA 1783. He was awarded a Fellowship at All Souls which he held until 1818. He was also awarded the perpetual curacies of Battlefield and Uffington, near Shrewsbury and, curiously, he is most famous for the sketches he made of most of the churches of Shropshire. Williams was the first serious botanist to work in Shropshire. He prepared a remarkably comprehensive Flora of the county, which he unfortunately never published. William Leighton found it in the library of Lord Berwick in 1841, just as his own Flora was being printed. He managed to insert many of Williams's records either into the body of his Flora or into an appendix. A copy that Leighton made of Williams's Flora is in the Shropshire Archive in Shrewsbury. There is no date on the MS, but many of Williams's records are from the 1790s. The location of Williams's herbarium is a mystery. Kent & Allen failed to trace it. Williams made several first British records, such as Carex x fulva and Potamogeton alpinus, so it would be very interesting if it were to turn up.
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references and external links
- Kent DH & Allen DE. 1984. British and Irish Herbaria. London.
