William Woolls
William Woolls (born March 30, 1814 in Winchester , Hampshire , England , † March 14, 1893 in Burwood near Sydney ) was an Australian educator, theologian and botanist . His botanical author abbreviation is " Woolls ".
Life
William Woolls was the nineteenth child of the wholesaler Edward Woolls († 1830) and his wife Sarah in Winchester, Hampshire, England. He attended Bishop's Waltham Grammar School. At the age of 16 he emigrated to Australia and reached Sydney on April 16, 1832 on board the Grecian . Archdeacon William Broughton gave him a position at The King's School in Parramatta , where he taught until he moved to Sydney College , which was headed by William Timothy Cape from 1835 .
On June 28, 1838, he married Dinah Catherine Hall at St. John's Church in Parramatta. The two had a son and a daughter; on July 12, 1844 his wife died giving birth. On July 16, 1845, William Woolls married the widowed Ann Boag.
His third wife, Sarah Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Lowe of Bringelly, he married on June 25, 1862 in St. Paul's Church in Narellan.
On March 14, 1893, William Woolls died of paraplegia in Burwood. He was buried in St. John's Cemetery in Parramatta. His wife Sarah Elizabeth died in 1909.
Work - pedagogue, theologian and botanist
Contributions by Woolls have appeared in The Colonist , The Atlas and other publications. Woolls founded his own school in Parramatta in 1841, first in Harrisford, then at Broughton House , where he taught for 25 years. Woolls was President of the Cumberland Mutual Improvement Society ; he tried to found a society to promote geographic research.
After he had refused to ordination twice, he was appointed Deacon on June 8, 1873 by Bishop Frederic Barker , ordained and on December 21, incumbent of Richmond; In 1877 he became a rural dean . In 1883 he retired.
Woolls was very interested in botany and studied the local flora. Sponsored by James Walker of The King's School and Marsfield, he has written articles that have appeared in Horticultural Magazine , the Victorian Naturalist and the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London . Contributions from him appeared in Sydney in 1867 under the title A Contribution to the Flora of Australia ; In 1865 he was elected a member ( fellow ) of the Linnean Society of London . In 1871 he received his doctorate from the University of Göttingen with a dissertation on botany in the area around Parramatta.
Woolls wrote many articles about the flora of the area for the newspapers. He was in correspondence with botanists such as Louisa Atkinson and Ferdinand von Mueller ; he wrote over 1,000 letters to the latter.
Dedication names
The genus Woollsia F.Muell. from the heather family (Ericaceae) has been named in his honor.
Works
- A contribution to the flora of Australia . 1867.
- Lectures on the Vegetable Kingdom, with Special Reference to the Flora of Australia . 1879.
- Plants indigenous in the neighborhood of Sydney . 1880.
- The Plants of New South Wales . 1885.
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- Robert Zander : Zander concise dictionary of plant names. Edited by Fritz Encke , Günther Buchheim, Siegmund Seybold . 13th, revised and expanded edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-8001-5042-5 .
- KJ Cable: William Woolls . In: Douglas Pike (Ed.): Australian Dictionary of Biography . Melbourne University Press, Carlton (Victoria) 1966–2012 (English).
Web links
- Author entry and list of the described plant names for William Woolls at the IPNI
- Brief entry in the Australian Government (Engl.)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Woolls, William |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian botanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 30, 1814 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Winchester , Hampshire , England |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 14, 1893 |
| Place of death | Burwood near Sydney |