Frank Kingdon-Ward

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Frank Kingdon Ward , actually Francis Kingdon Ward (born November 6, 1885 in Manchester , † April 8, 1958 in Wimbledon ) was a British plant collector . Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Kingdon-Ward ".

Live and act

Frank Kingdon-Ward was the son of the Cambridge botanist Harry Marshall Ward and of Selina Ward b. Kingdon. He traveled through the Himalayas as a plant collector and visited Tibet , China , Burma and India , among others . Herbrand Russell, 11th Duke of Bedford , sponsored his first trips. He was later supported by Lawrence Johnston and Lionel de Rothschild , among others

He brought u. a. Rhododendrons , camellias , primroses, iris , the blue poppy ( Meconopsis betonicifolia ) and Lilium arboricola with to Europe. In 1952 he described his experiences in the book Plant Hunter in Manipur .

Honors

To him, the plant genus was named in honor Ward Aster Small family of the daisy family (Asteraceae) and Kingdon Wardia C.Marquand from the family of the Gentian family (Gentianaceae) named. Kingdon-Ward is also dedicated to the Pleione humilis 'Frank Kingdon Ward' variety. Norman Boyd Kinnear described the rose- tailed trogon ( Harpactes wardi ) in 1927 . He received the type specimen from Frank Kingdon-Ward, to whom he also dedicated the specific epithet .

The genus Wardenia King of the Araliaceae family, however, was named in honor of Charles James Hislop Warden , one of the authors of Pharmacographia Indica .

The Royal Horticultural Society honored him with the Veitch Memorial Medal in 1934 .

literature

  • Francis Kingdon Ward: Plant Hunting on the Edge of the World , Reprint: Theophrastus Pub., 1983, ISBN 0913728217
  • Francis Kingdon Ward: The Land of the Blue Poppy , Reprint: Theophrastus Pub., 1973, ISBN 0913728039
  • Frank Kingdon-Ward, John Whitehead (editors): Himalayan Enchantment: An Anthology , Serindia Publications, 1990, ISBN 0906026229
  • Charles Lyte: Frank Kingdon-Ward: The Last of the Great Plant Hunters , John Murray, 1989, ISBN 0719547350
  • Michael Pollan, Tom Christopher (Eds.): In the Land of the Blue Poppies: The Collected Plant Hunting Writings of Frank Kingdon-Ward , Modern Library, 2003, ISBN 0812967399
  • Kenneth Cox, Kenneth Storm, Ian Baker: Frank Kingdon-Ward's Riddle of the Tsangpo , Antique Collector's Club, 2004
  • Norman Boyd Kinnear: Mr. NB Kinnear exhibited three birds obtained by Capt. F. Kingdon-Ward during June 1926, in Seinghku Valley, N. Burma . In: Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club . tape 47 , no. 314 , 1927, pp. 111-113 ( online [accessed July 27, 2013]).
  • James Small: Wardaster: A New Genus Of The Compositae From The Marches Of Yunnan-Szechuan . In: Transactions of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh . tape 29 , no. 2 , 1927, pp. 230-234 , doi : 10.1080 / 03746602709469423 .
  • George King: Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula . In: The journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal . tape 67 , no. 1 , 1898, p. 1-63 ( online [accessed August 12, 2013]).
  • Tim Healey, Andreas Held (translator): Discoverer and adventurer. Row: Our 20th Century. Verlag Reader's Digest - Das Beste, Stuttgart 1999 ISBN 3870708301 (with numerous illustrations - translated from English)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Toby Musgrave, Chris Gardner, Will Musgrave, The Plant hunters. London 1998, 212
  2. ↑ James Small, p. 230
  3. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]
  4. ↑ George King, p. 60
personal data
SURNAME Kingdon-Ward, Frank
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kingdon Ward, Francis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Plant collector in the Himalayas
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Manchester
DATE OF DEATH April 8, 1958
Place of death Wimbledon