Joseph Woods (architect)
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Joseph Woods
Family background
His mother was Mary (or Margaret) Hoare, daughter of Samuel Hoare (1716-1796), a London merchant from an Irish background, and Grizell Gurnell (1722? - 1802), of Ealing.[2] The Hoares lived on what is now Stoke Newington Church Street, opposite Clissold Park. in 1824; and Samuel Jr, a banker and abolitionist.
His father, Joseph Woods the elder, was an
Education
Joseph Woods' early education was at home, where his parents taught him Latin, Greek, Modern Greek, Hebrew, Italian and French. Later (at about age 16) he studied architecture under Daniel Asher Alexander.
Architect
Woods was responsible around 1790 for the design and building of
Botany
After about 1835 Joseph Wood's interest in architecture gave way to his other passion, botany.
Many years earlier, he had completed a study of the genus Rosa, which had been published in the Transactions of the
In 1850 he published The Tourist's Flora: a descriptive catalogue of the flowering plants and ferns of the British Islands, France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, and the Italian islands, drawing further on his many field excursions in Europe and the British Isles.[4]
A genus of fern, Woodsia, is named in his honour.
Extended family
Joseph Woods's uncles and aunts, on his mother's side, included:
- Clissold Houseand then ran into financial difficulties
- Grizell Hoare, who as a wealthy 72-year-old widow of Wilson Birkbeck married William Allen, pharmacist, philanthropist and abolitionist, with whom she founded Newington Academy for Girls in 1824; and *Samuel Hoare Jr, banker and abolitionist.
References
- ^ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1900). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 62. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ Memoirs of Samuel Hoare by his daughter Sarah and his widow Hannah. Ed. F.R. Pryor. Headley Brothers, Bishopsgate, London 1911.
- ISBN 0-7195-3328-7.
- ^ "Review of The Tourist's Flora by Joseph Woods". Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany. II: 256. 1850.
- ^ International Plant Names Index. J.Woods.