Cedric Bucknall (2 May 1849 in
Bath
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Plac ...
– 12 December 1921), was an English organist and botanist.
Life
He was the son of John Bucknall and Elizabeth Bassett. He married Abbie Cecilia Frye on 27 April 1873 in
West Hackney.
Children:
*Janet Mary Bucknall b. 1874 in Southwell
*Arthur Bucknall b. 1875
*Basil Charles Bucknall b. 1877
*Dorothea Cecilia Bucknall b. 1879
*Constance Caroline Bucknall b. 1881
*Harold Bucknall b. 1882
*Cedric Gordon Bucknall b. 1885
He was buried in Cranford Cemetery,
Westbury on Trym, Bristol.
Career
He held posts of:
*Assistant organist at
St Matthias' Church, Stoke Newington
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under
William Henry Monk
*Assistant Organist at
King's College London
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*Organist of St. Thomas' Church, Clapton 1870 - 1872
*Organist of
Southwell Minster 1873 - 1876
*Organist of
All Saints' Church, Clifton
The Church of All Saints is a Church of England parish church in Clifton, Bristol. The church is a grade II listed building. It is located in the Parish of All Saints with St. John Clifton in the Diocese of Bristol.
History
In 1862, a committe ...
,
Bristol
Botany
He was a distinguished amateur botanist, using every opportunity to travel across Europe and collect plants, which he then catalogued at leisure once home. His obituarist
James Walter White
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intimates that Bucknall's original enthusiasm for music waned with the monotony of his jobs, and his real passion was for science, particularly botany. He travelled to "Carinthia, the Apennines, Naples, Sicily, the Baleares, and Southern Spain", in a typical fortnight amassing four hundred species. ''Fungi of the Bristol District'' described 1431 species, many of which he illustrated himself, and "100 of these were new to Britain or to science".
References
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Cathedral organists
1849 births
1921 deaths
People from Bath, Somerset
19th-century British botanists