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Helena Lefroy
Helena Lefroy (1820–1908) was an Irish botanist known for her discovery of the only ''Euphorbia peplis'' specimen in Ireland. Early life Helena Lefroy was born Helena Trench on 27 January 1820 in Dublin. The Trench family name originated from Thomas Trench, Dean of Kildare. Thomas was born on 10 May 1761. He married Mary Weldon of Rahinderry in the queens county. Her parents were Reverend F.S. and Lady Helena Trench. When Helena was fourteen the family moved to Kilmorony where she developed an interest in botany and gardening. Her interest in botany came from her mother. By living with her father she became fluent in many languages including French, German and Italian. Her father was the Rector of Athy and from this Helena's strong religious beliefs stemmed. Reverend Trench died on 23 November 1860 and is buried at St. John's graveyard in Athy. She also had a sister Maria Trench who became Maria Wilson after marriage. Maria, like Helena, died in 1908. Personal life She married ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Botany
Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek word (''botanē'') meaning " pasture", " herbs" "grass", or " fodder"; is in turn derived from (), "to feed" or "to graze". Traditionally, botany has also included the study of fungi and algae by mycologists and phycologists respectively, with the study of these three groups of organisms remaining within the sphere of interest of the International Botanical Congress. Nowadays, botanists (in the strict sense) study approximately 410,000 species of land plants of which some 391,000 species are vascular plants (including approximately 369,000 species of flowering plants), and approximately 20,000 are bryophytes. Botany originated in prehistory as herbalism with the efforts of early humans to identify – and later cultivate – ed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Euphorbia Peplis
''Euphorbia peplis'', the purple spurge, is a species of ''Euphorbia'', native to southern and western Europe, northern Africa, and southwestern Asia, where it typically grows on coastal sand and shingle.''Flora Europaea''''Euphorbia peplis''/ref>Blamey, M. & Grey-Wilson, C. (1989). ''Flora of Britain and Northern Europe''. It is a small, prostrate annual plant, the stems growing to long, typically with four stems from the base. The leaves are opposite, oval, long, grey-green with reddish-purple veins. At the northern edge of its range in England, it has always been rare, and is now extinct Extinction is the termination of a kind of organism or of a group of kinds (taxon), usually a species. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of the species, although the capacity to breed and ....Pearman, D. A. & Preston, C. D. (2002). The last British record of Euphorbia peplis. ''BSBI News'' 91: 25. References External links * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dean Of Dromore
The Dean of Dromore has responsibility for Dromore Cathedral in the Diocese of Down and Dromore in the Church of Ireland. Deans of Dromore *1693/4 Isaac Plume *1609 William Todd *1621 Thomas Wilson *1622 John Wall *1623 Robert Dawson *1628/9 William Moore *1632/3–1638 George Synge (afterwards Bishop of Cloyne, 1638) *1638–1641 Robert Forward *1642–1673 Nicholas GreavesGreaves became Rector of Tullylish in 1642 and was presented as Dean in 1643, but owing to the troubled times he was not installed until 1661, after the Restoration. *1673–1681 William Smyth (afterwards Bishop of Killala and Achonry, 1681) *1681–1721 John Leslie *1721/2 Henry Leslie *1721/2 George Berkeley (afterwards Dean of Derry, 1724) *1724–1729 John Hamilton (son-in-law of Francis Hutchinson, Bishop of Down and Connor) *1729–1759 Samuel Hutchinson (afterwards Bishop of Killala and Achonry, 1759) *1759–1772 Walter Cope (afterwards Bishop of Clonfert and Kilmacduagh, 1772) *1772–1772 Hon. Jos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Langlois Lefroy
Thomas Langlois Lefroy (8 January 1776 – 4 May 1869) was an Irish-Huguenot politician and judge. He served as an MP for the constituency of Dublin University in 1830–1841, Privy Councillor of Ireland in 1835–1869 and Lord Chief Justice of Ireland in 1852–1866. Early life Thomas Lefroy was born in Limerick, Ireland. He had an outstanding academic record at Trinity College Dublin, from 1790 to 1793. His great-uncle, Benjamin Langlois, sponsored Tom's legal studies at Lincoln's Inn, London. One year later, Lefroy served as Auditor of Trinity's College Historical Society, the still-active debating society of the college. Later still, he became a prominent member of the Irish bar (having been called to it in 1797) and published a series of Law Reports on the cases of the Irish Court of Chancery. Tom Lefroy and Jane Austen In 1796, Lefroy began a flirtation with Jane Austen, who was a friend of an older female relative. Jane Austen wrote two letters to her sister Cassan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Library Of Ireland
The National Library of Ireland (NLI; ga, Leabharlann Náisiúnta na hÉireann) is the Republic of Ireland's national library located in Dublin, in a building designed by Thomas Newenham Deane. The mission of the National Library of Ireland is 'To collect, preserve, promote and make accessible the documentary and intellectual record of the life of Ireland and to contribute to the provision of access to the larger universe of recorded knowledge.' The library is a reference library and, as such, does not lend. It has a large quantity of Irish and Irish-related material which can be consulted without charge; this includes books, maps, manuscripts, music, newspapers, periodicals and photographs. Included in their collections is material issued by private as well as government publishers. The Chief Herald of Ireland and National Photographic Archive are attached to the library. The library holds Art exhibition, exhibitions and holds an archive of List of Irish newspapers, Irish ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Alfred Lefroy
George Alfred Lefroy (August 1854 – 1 January 1919) was an eminent Anglican priest and missionary in India during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Lefroy was born into an eminent Irish family in County Down in August 1854: his father was Jeffrey Lefroy, Dean of Dromore, and his grandfather, Thomas Langlois Lefroy, Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench, Ireland. He was educated at Marlborough and Trinity College, Cambridge and ordained in 1879. He joined the Cambridge Mission to Delhi the same year and eventually became head of the SPG Mission in Delhi. In 1899 he became Bishop of Lahore. Translated to become Bishop of Calcutta in 1912. Lefroy was known for his regular participation in public religious debates and for his lectures among Muslims and Hindus. He also joined fellow missionary C. F. Andrews in opposing western racism towards Indians. He became a Doctor of Divinity (DD) and died in post on 1 January 1919.''Obituary- The Bishop Of Calcutta'' The Tim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Purple Spurge
''Euphorbia peplis'', the purple spurge, is a species of '' Euphorbia'', native to southern and western Europe, northern Africa, and southwestern Asia, where it typically grows on coastal sand and shingle.''Flora Europaea''''Euphorbia peplis''/ref>Blamey, M. & Grey-Wilson, C. (1989). ''Flora of Britain and Northern Europe''. It is a small, prostrate annual plant, the stems growing to long, typically with four stems from the base. The leaves are opposite, oval, long, grey-green with reddish-purple veins. At the northern edge of its range in England, it has always been rare, and is now extinct Extinction is the termination of a kind of organism or of a group of kinds (taxon), usually a species. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of the species, although the capacity to breed and ....Pearman, D. A. & Preston, C. D. (2002). The last British record of Euphorbia peplis. ''BSBI News'' 91: 25. References External links * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Euphorbia
''Euphorbia'' is a very large and diverse genus of flowering plants, commonly called spurge, in the family Euphorbiaceae. "Euphorbia" is sometimes used in ordinary English to collectively refer to all members of Euphorbiaceae (in deference to the type genus), not just to members of the genus. Euphorbias range from tiny annual plants to large and long-lived trees. The genus has roughly 2,000 members, making it one of the largest genera of flowering plants. It also has one of the largest ranges of chromosome counts, along with ''Rumex'' and ''Senecio''. ''Euphorbia antiquorum'' is the type species for the genus ''Euphorbia''. It was first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1753 in ''Species Plantarum''. Some euphorbias are widely available commercially, such as poinsettias at Christmas. Some are commonly cultivated as ornamentals, or collected and highly valued for the aesthetic appearance of their unique floral structures, such as the crown of thorns plant (''Euphorbia milii''). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lundy
Lundy is an English island in the Bristol Channel. It was a micronation from 1925–1969. It forms part of the district of Torridge in the county of Devon. About long and wide, Lundy has had a long and turbulent history, frequently changing hands between the British crown and various usurpers. In the 1920s, one self-proclaimed king, Martin Harman, tried to issue his own coinage and was fined by the House of Lords. In 1941, two German Heinkel He 111 bombers crash landed on the island, and their crews were captured. In 1969, Lundy was purchased by British millionaire Jack Hayward, who donated it to the National Trust. It is now managed by the Landmark Trust, a conservation charity that derives its income from day trips and holiday lettings, most visitors arriving by boat from Bideford or Ilfracombe. A local tourist curiosity is the special "Puffin" postage stamp, a category known by philatelists as "local carriage labels", a collectors' item. As a steep, rocky island ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Barrington (naturalist)
Richard Manliffe Barrington (Fassaroe near Bray, 1849 – Dublin, 15 September 1915) was an Irish naturalist. Barrington was a farmer and land valuer. He was educated at Trinity College Dublin where he gained an M.A. He wrote reports on the flora of Lough Ree, Lough Erne, Ben Bulben, Tory Island and the Blaskets all published by the Royal Irish Academy but most of his scientific papers are on birds. His best known work is ''The migration of birds, as observed at Irish lighthouses and lightships including the original reports from 1888 to 1897, now published for the first time, and an analysis of these and of the previously put together with an appendix giving the measurements of about 1600 wings'' London : R.H. PorterOnly 350 copies of this 667 page work were printed. Barrington was one of the leaders of the Royal Irish Academy Rockall expedition of 1896 with Robert Lloyd Praeger and John A. Harvie Brown of Dunipace (1844–1916), a Scottish gentleman naturalist.John Wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Chichester Hart
Henry Chichester Hart MRIA FLS (1847–1908) was an Anglo-Irish botanist and explorer. Early life He was the son of Sir Andrew Searle Hart and his wife Frances MacDougall, daughter of Henry MacDougall, Q.C., of Dublin. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, with a B.A. in experimental and natural science. Botany and exploration From the age of 17, Hart conducted a botanical survey of Donegal (lasting until 1898), which led to his publication ''Flora of the County Donegal'', widely regarded as his most important botanical work. The publication was destroyed during a fire as part of the 1916 Easter Rising. In 1886, H. C. Hart wagered fifty guineas with the naturalist R. M. Barrington that he could walk the between the tram terminus in Terenure in Dublin, Ireland to the summit of Lugnaquilla in Wicklow and back in under 24 hours. Hart, accompanied by Sir Frederick Cullinan, walked from Terenure to Lugnaquilla, in the Wicklow Mountains - a total of 75 miles - and back ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
