William Woolls
William Woolls (30 March 1814 – 14 March 1893) was an Australian
Woolls, the nineteenth child of merchant Edward Woolls, was born at
He published two boyish productions in verse, The Voyage: A Moral Poem, in 1832, and Australia: A Moral and Descriptive Poem in 1833. In 1838 he brought out Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, mainly prose essays. He also published in 1841 A Short Account of the Character and Labours of the Rev.
In 1873 Woolls took holy orders in the Church of England, became incumbent of Richmond, and later rural dean. Another collection of his papers, Lectures on the Vegetable Kingdom with special reference to the Flora of Australia, appeared in 1879. According to K. J. Cable, "... Woolls was best known for his promotion of Australian botany and his assistance to other scholars rather than for large-scale systematic work."[2]
Woolls retired from the ministry in 1883 and lived at Sydney for the rest of his life. He was much in touch with Ferdinand von Mueller and assisted him in his botanical work. Woolls's next volume, Plants of New South Wales, was published in 1885, and his Plants Indigenous and Naturalized in the Neighbourhood of Sydney, a revised and enlarged edition of a paper prepared in 1880, came out in 1891. He died of paraplegia in the Sydney suburb of Burwood survived by his third wife.[1][2]
References
- ^ a b c Serle, Percival (1949). "Woolls, William (1814–1893)". Dictionary of Australian Biography/Project Gutenberg Australia. Retrieved 13 May 2008.
- ^ ISSN 1833-7538. Retrieved 13 May 2008.
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Woolls.
Further reading
- OCLC 247984779.