Comber, Harold Frederick

Identificatie

Soort entiteit

Persoon

Geauthoriseerde naam

Comber, Harold Frederick

Parallelle vormen van de naam

  • H.F. Comber

Gestandaardiseerde naamvorm(en) volgens andere regels.

Aandere naamsvormen

Identificatiecode voor organisaties

Beschrijving

Bestaansperiode

1897-1969

Geschiedenis

Born Sussex 1897; died Oregon, U.S.A. 1969
Harold Comber’s father was head gardener at Nymans in Sussex and on leaving school he worked there for two years, before moving, aged 17, to Colesbourne Park, Gloucestershire where he managed the glasshouses and botanical collections. He studied horticulture at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh from 1920 to 1923, obtaining exceptionally high marks in all his subjects. This made him an ideal candidate for two plant-hunting expeditions in the Andes sponsored by the a group of wealthy gardening enthusiasts in 1925-26 and 1926-27, from which he sent back seeds and herbarium specimens of over 1200 species, including the Chilean Fire Bush and several species of Berberis and Eucryphia. In 1930 he made a further plant hunting trip to Tasmania and on his return took up the post of manager of the Burnham Lily Nursery in Buckinghamshire. In 1952 he emigrated to America to take up a position as lily hybridizer at the Jan de Graff Oregon bulb farms, retiring in 1962. In retirement he remained active, writing prodigiously and listing the native plants of specific areas for the Native Plant Society of Oregon and at the time of his death was revising his monograph on lilies of the world. In his lifetime Harold Comber collected many species new to science, a new genus Combera was named after him.
D.W.

Plaatsen

Rechtsvorm

Functies, beroepen en activiteiten

Mandaat/bronnen van bevoegdheid

Interne structuren / genealogie

Algemene context

relaties

Access points area

Onderwerp trefwoord

Geografische trefwoorden

Occupations

Beheer

Authority record identifier

GB/NNAF/P153422

Identificatiecode van de instelling

GB 235

Toegepaste regels en/of conventies

Status

Niveau van detaillering

Datering van aanmaak, herziening of verwijdering

Created by Diana Wilkinson
Revised June 2019 by Leonie Paterson

Taal (talen)

Schrift(en)

Bronnen

https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F59264
R. Desmond ‘Dictionary of British and Irish Botanists and Horticulturalists’ Gardeners Chronicle, 1969 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Frederick_Comber

Onderhoudsaantekeningen

  • Clipboard

  • Export

  • EAC

Related subjects

Related places