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Dr Henry Francois Devis (1862-1938)
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Born 1862, Salford, Lancashire, son of Charles Walter Devis.
1878 asked a question in the Midland Naturalist, whilst living in King's Heath Birmingham.
1881 Captain King Edward's School Birmingham Cricket team.
1883-84 played Rugby Union for Clifton RFC.
1885 attending University College Bristol.
1917 described as Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians. Captain in RAMC during World War I.
31 December 1925 retired from partnership in medical practice at 160 Wells Rd, Knowl, Bristol.
Died 1938, Penzance, Cornwall.
An older brother, Edwin Charles John Devis, born 1856 in Breame, Somerset, was a civil engineer, who left for New York in 1891 and may have died in 1900 at Cleveland, Ohio.
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Typical red-printed label of HF Devis. Specimen collected when he was 16, near his home at King's Heath, Birmingham. |
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