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Crespigny, Eyre Champion de (1821-1895)
Date Updated: 19 April 2013
Herbarium
Natural History Museum (BM)
Collection
Plant Collectors
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Contributor
Natural History Museum (BM)
First name(s)
Eyre Champion de
Last name
Crespigny
Initials
E.C. de
Life Dates
1821 - 1895
Collecting Dates
1845 - 1894
Specification
Plant collector
Groups collected
Algae
Bryophytes
Spermatophytes
Organisation(s)
A, BM, CGE, GL, K, MANCH, NMW, OXF
Countries
Indian region: IndiaSouthern Africa: South AfricaEurope: Switzerland, United Kingdom
Associate(s)
De Crespigny, Eyre Champion (synonym)
Biography
Eyre Champion de Crespigny was born at Vevay, Switzerland, and attended St Paul's School in London. After gaining his diploma in Heidelberg he returned to England and continued training in medicine at Bartholomew's and Guy's Hospitals. In 1845 Crespigny moved to Bombay, where he was engaged as a medic in the military and navy, as well as in civil duties.
His long-running interest in botany led to his appointment in 1859 as Acting Conservator of Forests and Superintendent of the Government Botanical Gardens as Dapsorie, near Pune. Crespigny's failing health forced him to return to England in 1862, however, bringing with him some coloured drawings of plants he had made during his time in India. These were deposited in the Botany Department of the British Museum (The Natural History Museum, London). In England, Crespigny settled south of London and devoted himself to studying the local flora, resulting in his New London Flora: or Handbook to the botanical localities of the Metropolitan Districts, published in 1877. He also built up a herbarium of British and European plants, partly by exchange. He died of heart disease at his home in Beckenham, Kent.
Sources:
Anon., 1895, Journal of Botany, British and Foreign, 33: 127.
His long-running interest in botany led to his appointment in 1859 as Acting Conservator of Forests and Superintendent of the Government Botanical Gardens as Dapsorie, near Pune. Crespigny's failing health forced him to return to England in 1862, however, bringing with him some coloured drawings of plants he had made during his time in India. These were deposited in the Botany Department of the British Museum (The Natural History Museum, London). In England, Crespigny settled south of London and devoted himself to studying the local flora, resulting in his New London Flora: or Handbook to the botanical localities of the Metropolitan Districts, published in 1877. He also built up a herbarium of British and European plants, partly by exchange. He died of heart disease at his home in Beckenham, Kent.
Sources:
Anon., 1895, Journal of Botany, British and Foreign, 33: 127.
References
Gunn, M. & Codd, L.E. Bot. Explor. S. Afr. (1981): 127; Kent, D.H. & Allen, D.E., Brit. Irish Herb. (1984): 120, 127; Lanjouw, J. & Stafleu, F.A., Index Herb. Coll. A-D (1954): 144, 156;
Date Updated: 19 April 2013
Herbarium
Natural History Museum (BM)
Collection
Plant Collectors
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Contributor
Natural History Museum (BM)
First name(s)
Eyre Champion de
Last name
Crespigny
Initials
E.C. de
Life Dates
1821 - 1895
Collecting Dates
1845 - 1894
Specification
Plant collector
Groups collected
Algae
Bryophytes
Spermatophytes
Organisation(s)
A, BM, CGE, GL, K, MANCH, NMW, OXF
Countries
Indian region: IndiaSouthern Africa: South AfricaEurope: Switzerland, United Kingdom
Associate(s)
De Crespigny, Eyre Champion (synonym)
Biography
Eyre Champion de Crespigny was born at Vevay, Switzerland, and attended St Paul's School in London. After gaining his diploma in Heidelberg he returned to England and continued training in medicine at Bartholomew's and Guy's Hospitals. In 1845 Crespigny moved to Bombay, where he was engaged as a medic in the military and navy, as well as in civil duties.
His long-running interest in botany led to his appointment in 1859 as Acting Conservator of Forests and Superintendent of the Government Botanical Gardens as Dapsorie, near Pune. Crespigny's failing health forced him to return to England in 1862, however, bringing with him some coloured drawings of plants he had made during his time in India. These were deposited in the Botany Department of the British Museum (The Natural History Museum, London). In England, Crespigny settled south of London and devoted himself to studying the local flora, resulting in his New London Flora: or Handbook to the botanical localities of the Metropolitan Districts, published in 1877. He also built up a herbarium of British and European plants, partly by exchange. He died of heart disease at his home in Beckenham, Kent.
Sources:
Anon., 1895, Journal of Botany, British and Foreign, 33: 127.
His long-running interest in botany led to his appointment in 1859 as Acting Conservator of Forests and Superintendent of the Government Botanical Gardens as Dapsorie, near Pune. Crespigny's failing health forced him to return to England in 1862, however, bringing with him some coloured drawings of plants he had made during his time in India. These were deposited in the Botany Department of the British Museum (The Natural History Museum, London). In England, Crespigny settled south of London and devoted himself to studying the local flora, resulting in his New London Flora: or Handbook to the botanical localities of the Metropolitan Districts, published in 1877. He also built up a herbarium of British and European plants, partly by exchange. He died of heart disease at his home in Beckenham, Kent.
Sources:
Anon., 1895, Journal of Botany, British and Foreign, 33: 127.
References
Gunn, M. & Codd, L.E. Bot. Explor. S. Afr. (1981): 127; Kent, D.H. & Allen, D.E., Brit. Irish Herb. (1984): 120, 127; Lanjouw, J. & Stafleu, F.A., Index Herb. Coll. A-D (1954): 144, 156;
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