George Claridge Druce

George Claridge Druce (* May 23, 1850 in Potterspury, Northamptonshire, England; † February 29, 1932 in Oxford ) was an English botanist and chemist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Druce ".

Life and work

George Claridge Druce was (* 1815 in Woughton -on- the-Green, Buckinghamshire ) was born the illegitimate son of his mother never married Jane Druce. At the age of 16, he went with the pharmaceutical company P. Jeyes & Co. in Northampton in teaching. In 1872 he graduated from the pharmaceutical tests and was "retail chemist ". However, his real interest was in botany. In 1876 he helped found the Northampton Natural History Society.

Druce had signed an agreement with his employer, in which he promised that he would not run a competing company within 30 miles. He went in June 1879 to Oxford, where he invested his savings of about £ 400 in the establishment of its own drugstore Druce & Co. at No. 118 in the High Street.

In 1880 he helped found the Ashmolean Natural History Society of Oxfordshire. In 1886 he published his work, The Flora of Oxfordshire. In 1889, Druce honorary MA degree from Oxford University. In 1895 he was appointed " Fielding Curator in the Department of Botany ."

Druce served the Oxford City Council from 1892 until his death. For 30 years he was chairman of the Public Health Committee. From 1896 to 1897 he was sheriff of Oxford, 1900-1901 Mayor of Oxford. In 1909 he moved within Oxford in the house number 9 of Crick Road.

1920 Druce to a Alderman (about: Alderman ) appointed. In 1927 he was elected as a member ( "Fellow" ) to the Royal Society.

Druce died at his home in Crick Road, which he called Yardley Lodge, on 29 February 1932 at the age of 82 years. He was buried in Holywell Cemetery.

Works

  • The Flora of Oxfordshire. 1886, 2nd edition 1927.
  • The Dillenian Herbaria. 1907 (edited by Sydney Howard Vines ).
  • List of British plants .... 1908, 2nd edition in 1928 under the title "British plans to list ... ".
  • Together with Sydney Howard Vines: An Account of the Mori Smithsonian herbarium in the possession of the University of Oxford., 1914.
  • The comital flora of the British Isles. In 1932.

Swell

  • Robert Zander, Fritz Encke, Günther Buchheim, Siegmund Seybold (eds.): Handbook of Plant Names. 13th edition. Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-8001-5042-5.
  • Entry at the Royal Society (English )
  • Brief biography at headington.org.uk (English )
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