Charles Bagge Plowright

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Charles Bagge Plowright
Born(1849-04-03)3 April 1849
King's Lynn, Norfolk, England
Died24 April 1910(1910-04-24) (aged 61)
North Wootton, Norfolk, England
NationalityBritish
OccupationSurgeon
Known formycology

Charles Bagge Plowright (3 April 1849 – 24 April 1910) was a British medical doctor and mycologist.

Plowright's training as a doctor began when he was apprenticed to Dr. John Lowe, Surgeon to the

Medical Officer for Health for many years in Freebridge Lynn, and was the Hunterian Professor of Comparative Anatomy and Physiology at the Royal College of Surgeons from 1890 to 1894. While a professor he gave lectures on ergot and fungi in the human body which were noted in the British Journal of Medicine.[1]

Plowright's most significant contributions were in mycology. In 1872 he published a list of 800 Norfolk fungi in the Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society and was elected an honorary member of the Society. Starting in 1873, Plowright published a series of

fasciculi (pamphlets intended to be collected into a book) titled Sphaeriacei Britannici describing members of the fungal genus Sphaeria (species which can be placed in Pseudovalsa, Macrospora, Homostegia families, and others). With his collaborator William Phillips, Plowright published a series of papers titled New and Rare British Fungi (1871–1884) which described almost 300 new species. Plowright also contributed to The Gardeners' Chronicle for over thirty years, writing principally on fungal diseases of plants; he was an early advocate in England of the use of Bordeaux mixture. Early in his career he made a special collection of Pyrenomycetae (now Sordariomycetes) and published several papers on them; he later moved on to the Uredinaceae, in 1889 publishing A Monograph of the British Uredinaea and Ustilaginaea. He was one of the early organizers of the British Mycological Society
and served as president in 1898–9.

In 1883, botanist Pier Andrea Saccardo in Syll. Fung., circumscribed a genus of fungi, Plowrightia belonging to the family Dothioraceae and named it in Plowright's honour.[2]

Plowright had an interest in archaeology and published a number of articles on the subject, including several works on

woad.[3]

Plowright also was active in his local community, serving as a local

Lynn Grammar School.[4]

Family

Plowright married Mary Jane Lovie Robb, daughter of an Edinburgh merchant, and they had two children: Edith Mary (b. 1875) and Charles Tertius Maclean Plowright (1879–1935). Charles was a surgeon and became a captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps.[5] Edith Mary married Thomas Petch, also a mycologist, in 1908.[6]

The standard author abbreviation Plowr. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[7]

References

  1. ^ CHARLES BAGGE PLOWRIGHT M.D.: A VICTORIAN POLYMATH. Australian Postal History & Social Philately
  2. ^ "Plowrightia". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 12 September 2022.
  3. doi:10.1016/S0007-1536(07)80042-8
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  5. ^ Charles Tertius MacLean Plowright. thepeerage.com
  6. ^ Pharmaceutical Journal. 80: 45. January 1908. {{cite journal}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  7. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Plowr.

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