New Zealand public servant and plant collector chiefly interested in bryophytes and lichens. Some 230 bryophtye collections by Bloxam from Westland and Southland, made between 1866 and 1868, were deposited at Canterbury Museum (herbarium transferred to CHR).

Andrew R. Bloxam was the son of the Rev. Andrew Bloxam, who travelled round the Hawaiian islands as naturalist on the voyage of HMS Blonde. Andrew R. Bloxam later donated some items from this voyage to museums including the Bishop Museum in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Bloxam attended Worcester College, Oxford, before emigrating to New Zealand in 1863. At first he lived in Lyttelton, but after two years was appointed clerk of the warden's court at Kanieri, Westland. He spent 1872-1878 in England once more, then returning to New Zealand held an appointment at Greymouth (West Coast) before being appointed deputy registrar and deputy sheriff of Canterbury (becoming registrar and sheriff in two years time). He married his second wife in 1905, when he was over 70 years old.

Sources:
Anon., 1903, The Cyclopedia of New Zealand (Canterbury Provincial District): 242
J.F. Lyon, 1971, "Bryophyte Collections in New Zealand", New Zealand Journal of Botany, 9: 706.