William Turner Thiselton-Dyer

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William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
(The Gardeners' Chronicle 1899)

Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer

botanist, and the third director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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Life and career

Thiselton-Dyer was born in

T. H. Huxley in South Kensington with Huxley's summer courses for teachers.[2]

In 1875, Thiselton-Dyer was appointed assistant director at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, under Hooker, where he was to stay for thirty years. Thiselton-Dyer spent considerable time working for the benefit[

Dunkinfield Henry Scott and H. Marshall Ward.[2]

Thiselton-Dyer was elected FRS in 1880. His proposers included Charles Darwin and George Bentham, but not Joseph Dalton Hooker, whose daughter Dyer had already married. From 1885 to 1905, after the retirement of Hooker, he was director of the Royal Botanic Gardens.

As Director, in 1896 Dyer appointed the first women gardeners at Kew, Annie Gulvin and Alice Hutchins.[3]

Thiselton-Dyer was a fellow of the

Royal Commissioner to the Paris International Exhibition (1900) and to the St. Louis Exposition (1904), botanical adviser to the Secretary of State for the Colonies (1902–1906),[4] and became a member of the court of the University of Bristol in 1909. His principal works are an English edition of Sachs Text-Book of Botany (1875), editions of the Flora Capensis and of the Flora of Tropical Africa, and Index Kewensis (1905).[5]
With his former school-friend Henry Trimen he published The Flora of Middlesex (1869).

He married the botanical illustrator

KCMG in 1899,[7] and awarded the Clarke Medal by the Royal Society of New South Wales in 1892. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1905.[8]
He died at The Ferns (now Crickley Court), Witcombe, a village near Gloucester, and is buried in the churchyard of St Peter's, Bentham.

The standard author abbreviation Dyer is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[9]

References

  1. ^ a b William Turner Thiselton-Dyer (1843–1928) at Royal Botanic gardens, Kew
  2. ^
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  3. ^ "Lady gardeners of the 19th & 20th century | Kew". www.kew.org. Retrieved 16 April 2021.
  4. ^ "No. 27435". The London Gazette. 20 May 1902. p. 3324.
  5. ^ Durand, Théophile; Benjamin Daydon Jackson; William Turner Thiselton-Dyer; David Prain; Arthur William Hill; Edward James Salisbury (1908). Index Kewensis plantarum phanerogamarum: Supplementum Tertium Nomina et Synonyma Omnium Generum et Specierum AB Initio Anni MDCCCCI Usque AD Finem Anni MDCCCCV Complectens (suppl.3 (1901–1905) ed.). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 27 May 2008.
  6. ^ Geison, Gerald L. "Thiselton-Dyer, William Turner". encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 11 January 2018.
  7. ^ "Dyer, William Turner Thiselton-". Who's Who: 741. 1919.
  8. ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 26 January 2024.
  9. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Dyer.

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Awards
Preceded by Clarke Medal
1892 		Succeeded by
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