Organisation(s)
BM (main), K (main), A, AK, B, CGE, DBN, E, EBH (currently E), F, FRS, GH, GLR, GOET, MANCH, MO, NMW, NY, O, OXF, P, PH, PRE, SAM, TTN, US, WAR (currently WARMS), WARMS
Countries
Europe: Austria, Croatia, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Switzerland, United KingdomNorth American region: Canada, United StatesCaribbean region: JamaicaSouthern Africa: South Africa
Associate(s)
Alexander, Richard Chandler (1809-1902)(co-collector)Grisebach, August Heinrich Rudolf (1814-1879)(specimens to)
Biography
English physician and botanist from Corsham, Wiltshire who was born Richard Chandler Alexander but changed his surname to Prior in 1859. Some sources give his surname as 'Alexander Prior'. He was briefly Curator of the Fielding Herbarium, Oxford and collected widely. His British herbarium was acquired by BM with that of C.E. Salmon (1930) but some 30,000 specimens forming the remainder of his private herbarium were deposited at K (1903). He sent material from Jamaica to Grisebach who named the genus Prioria Griseb. in his honour.
References
Brummitt, R.K. & Powell, C.E., Authors Pl. Names (1992): 509; Desmond, R., Dict. Brit. Irish Bot. Hortic., ed. 2 (1994): 9; Gunn, M. & Codd, L.E. Bot. Explor. S. Afr. (1981): 79, 287; Harrison, S.G., Ind. Coll. Welsh Nat. Herb. (1985): 11; Jackson, B.D., Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew (1901): 54; Kent, D.H. & Allen, D.E., Brit. Irish Herb. (1984): 225; Lanjouw, J. & Stafleu, F.A., Index Herb. Coll. A-D (1954): 31; Vegter, H.I., Index Herb. Coll. N-R (1983): 713;
