Frederick Townsend
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Mr Frederick Townsend F.L.S (5/12/1822-16/12/1905)
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Biography
Born 5 December 1822 Rawmarsh, Yorkshire, son of Rev. Edward James Townsend, rector of Rawmarsh, later of Ilmington, near Honington, and grandson of Mr Gore Townsend of Honington, Warwickshire.
Educated Harrow, and Trinity College, Cambridge, BA 1850, MA 1855.
He became acquainted with Charles Cardale Babington, and William Williamson Newbould, their first botanical ramble together being recorded in the journal of the former as on 28th May, 1847, when they went by train to Whittlesford. Remained a close friend of Newbould until the latter's death in 1886.
1863 Married Mary Elizabeth Butler.
1865 Living at Shedfield Lodge, Wickham, Hampshire.
1865 - 1874 Worked on Flora of Hampshire, while living in the county, published 1883.
1874 On death of uncle, Rev. H. Townsend, succeeded to family estate at Honington Hall, Warwickshire.
1886 - 1892 MP for Stratford-on-Avon, and frequented the National Herbarium at the British Museum during visits to London.
Died 16 December 1905, Cimiez, Nice. Herbarium and botanical books left to Allan Octavian Hume.
1846 Fellow of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh.
1878 FLS.
Obituary in the Journal of Botany, 44, (1906) pp. 113 - 115.
information included from the herbariaunited database
Inferred associations
associated with
- Allan Octavian Hume
- Joseph Woods
- William Gardiner
- Edward Shearburn Marshall
- Botanical Exchange Club of The British Isles
- A Hamburgh
- Augustin Ley
- William Williamson Newbould
- William Hadden Beeby
- William Borrer
- Charles Bailey
- D J McCosh
- Henry Ibbotson
- Albert John Hambrough
- Andrew Bloxam
- Botanical Society of Edinburgh
- Hewett Cottrell Watson
- Charles Edgar Salmon
- Charles Cardale Babington
- William Moyle Rogers
- William Richardson Linton
- Edward Francis Linton
- Herbert William Pugsley
- William Hunt Painter
- Ernest Stanley Salmon
- James Edgar Dandy
- John Gilbert Baker
- Watson Botanical Exchange Club
- George Taylor
- James Walter White
- William Allport Leighton
- William Andrew Shoolbred
- John Thomas Irvine Boswell-Syme
- George Stacey Gibson
- Alexander Goodman More
- C Billot C Billot et al - Flora exsiccata
- James Backhouse
- John Tatham
- Alexander Somerville
- Charles Edward Britton
- Robert Collett
- George Claridge Druce
- John Braybrooke Marshall
- John (Joannis) Fraser
- Botanical Society of London
- Thomas Richard Archer Briggs
- Daniel Sharpe
- Henry Bromwich
- Anthony Clive Jermy
- Alfred James Wilmott
- George Nicholson
- Robert Lloyd Praeger
- Arthur Bennett
- William Gardiner
- Charlotte Ellen Palmer
- Beverley Alan Miles
- Henry & James Groves
- James Alfred Wheldon
- Friedrich Wilhelm Noe
- Frederick Janson Hanbury
- Richard von Wettstein
- Walter Waters Reeves
- Anthony Hurt Wolley Dod
- Franz Johann Schultz
- William Groves Perry
- Harry Joseph Riddelsdell
- Fenton John Anthony Hort
- David Elliston Allen
- James Groves
- Robert Albert Phillips
- William Henry Griffin
- R D Randall
- Job Edward Lousley
- Friedrich Martin Josef Welwitsch
Collection activity by county
1837
1904
Examples of handwriting
Mr Frederick Townsend |
label shows Townsend's 'neat' script - black ink - and his 'curly' script in pencil, seen in his annotations (inference from many sheets - needs confirmation) |
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Mr Frederick Townsend |
Showing his 'scruffy' script; also 'curly' script (the pencil annotations); and seemingly his 'neat' script (the number 7391) |
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Mr Frederick Townsend |
Twycross in Townsend's neat script, later notes in 'curly' script |
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