Henry Tuke Mennell
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Mr Henry Tuke Mennell FLS (1835-9/12/1923)
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Henry Tuke Mennell FLS
English botanist; president of the Croydon Microscopical and Natural History Club, 1885-1886; read "On the flora and vegetation of western Canada" to that Society, 26th November 1884; Fellow of the Linnaean Society. Committee member and Honorary member of the Newcastle NHS. A member of the Society of Friends (Quakers).
Born 19 Jun 1835 in Scarborough, Yorkshire, son of George Mennell & Hannah Tuke.
Married Maria Bradley Newman daughter of Dr. Edward Newman and
Maria Preston Hale, on 14 May 1868. Maria was born in 1842 in Peckham, London and died on 25 Feb 1912 in Scarborough, Yorkshire aged 70. They had six children.
He worked as a Tea Merchant (as did his father), and in 1912
operated as a dealer at St Dunstan's Buildings, Great Tower Street, London EC.
Wrote "Across Canada to the Rocky Mountains, from a botanist's point of view", 1885.
1915 published a pamphlet 'Friends' War Victims Fund, 1870-71'.
Died 9th December 1923 aged 88.
information included from the herbariaunited database
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associated with
- Croydon Natural History and Scientific Society
- Harold Stuart Thompson
- William Hadden Beeby
- Charles Edgar Salmon
- Henry Franklin Parsons
- Watson Botanical Exchange Club
- Augustin Ley
Collection activity by county
1878
1896
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