John Bishop Duncan

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Mr John Bishop Duncan (1869-4/1/1953)

Contents 1 Biography 2 John Bishop Duncan 1869-1953 3 information included from the herbariaunited database 3.1 Inferred associations 3.1.1 collected with 3.1.2 associated with 3.2 Collection activity by county 4 references and external links

Biography

John Bishop Duncan 1869-1953

Treasurer and, later, president, of the British Bryological Society. He collected plants in England, Scotland, Ireland, Austria, Switzerland and Norway. His bryophyte herbarium is at the Hancock Museum (Newcastle).

Born Edinburgh 1869.
1871 family moved to Moffat.
Became a bank clerk in Moffat, Kelso, Stratford upon Avon, And Birmingham (1891) then Bewdley by 1901 where in 1912 he was living in Park Lane.
Retired 1923 and moved to Berwick upon Tweed.
Died in Berwick upon Tweed, 4 January 1953.

See BIOGRAPHY by Mark Lawley.
An obituary by W Watson (1953) Transactions of the British Bryological Society, 2(2), 333-334, is available via ingentaconnect.

information included from the herbariaunited database

Inferred associations

collected with

• Edward Cleminshaw

associated with

• Isaac A Helsby
• Langley Kitching
• Watson Botanical Exchange Club
• Edward Cleminshaw
• William Robert Sherrin

Collection activity by county

Search for specimens collected by John Bishop Duncan.

references and external links