Английская Википедия:George Luxford
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:For Шаблон:Use British English Шаблон:Use dmy dates George Luxford (7 April 1807 – 12 June 1854) was an English botanist, printer and journalist.
Life
Luxford was born at Sutton, Surrey on 7 April 1807. At age 11 he was apprenticed to Allingham, a printer in Reigate, with whom he remained 16 years, and where he studied.[1]
In 1834 Luxford moved to Birmingham. His obituary notice in The Phytologist states he worked there in the printing and engraving business of "Mr. Allen".[1][2] Under the legislation of the time, a printer had to apply for the licensing of a new press; and in April 1845 Josiah Allen of Birmingham, brother of James Baylis Allen, submitted an application witnessed by "Geo. Luxford" for a recent press. (Business partners could and did act as witnesses.)[3][4] Luxford was elected an associate of the Linnean Society in 1836.[1]
Returning south in 1837, Luxford started in business as a printer in London the next year,[1] and shortly was given a contract by Longmans, to print a magazine edited by John Claudius Loudon.[5] In 1838 he became a Fellow of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, with address on Ratcliffe Highway;[6] he was also a member of the Botanical Society of London.[7] In 1841 he took on the editorship of The Phytologist for Edward Newman, who that year bought his printing business.[1][8]
For some years Luxford was sub-editor of the Westminster Review.[1] He was also associated with The Globe, in 1844–5.[2][9] According to Rosemary Ashton, as publisher also of the Westminster Review, Luxford made false accounts to the owner, William Edward Hickson, who sold out to John Chapman in 1851.[10]
From 1846 to 1851 Luxford was lecturer on botany in St. Thomas's Hospital.[1] He worked on The Phytologist, in the capacity of compositor and reader, until his death on 12 June 1854, at Walworth.[1][8]
Works
- A Flora of the neighbourhood of Reigate, Surrey, containing the flowering plants and ferns, 1838.[1][11]
Reviews by Luxford in the Westminster Review, by convention unsigned, have been attributed:
- Popular Works on Natural History in 1845;[12]
- Of A History of British Ferns, 1847;[13]
- Of Birds of Jamaica by Philip Gosse;[13]
- Of Illustrations of Instinct by Jonathan Couch;[14]
- Of Lecture on Instinct by Richard Whately;[14]
- Of Vestiges of Creation, sixth edition 1847;[15]
- Of John Lindley's Vegetable Kingdom and other works, including Natural Systems of Botany by James Lawson Drummond, in 1850, attacking in particular the Linnaean system.[16] Drummond replied in 1851 in The Phytologist.[17]
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