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Briggs, Thomas Richard Archer (1836-1891)

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)
Thomas Richard Archer
Last name
Briggs
Initials
T.R.A.
Life Dates
1836 - 1891
Collecting Dates
1864 - 1890
Specification
Plant collector
Groups collected
Pteridophytes Spermatophytes
Organisation(s)
K (main), BM, E, EBH (currently E), GL, MANCH, NMW, OXF, PLY, WAR (currently WARMS), WARMS
Countries
Europe: United Kingdom
Associate(s)
Archer-Briggs, T.R. (synonym)
Rogers, William Moyle (1835-1920) (co-collector)
Biography
British naturalist from Fursdon, Plymouth, in the Parish of Egg Buckland, Archer Briggs mainly studied local plants and produced a local flora. He was a member of the Devonshire Association (1872-1891) and specialised in the Rosaceae. He first discovered one of Britain's rarest trees, the Plymouth pear Pyrus cordata Desv. Rubus briggsii H.C. Watson was named in his honour. Some 1,600 of his specimens were donated to BM (1800). His herbarium was donated to K (1891) but some original British material may have been transferred to BM (c. 1961) under the terms of the Morton Agreement.
References
Brummitt, R.K. & Powell, C.E., Authors Pl. Names (1992): 85; Harrison, S.G., Ind. Coll. Welsh Nat. Herb. (1985): 22; Jackson, B.D., Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew (1901): 11; Kent, D.H. & Allen, D.E., Brit. Irish Herb. (1984): 82, 101; Lanjouw, J. & Stafleu, F.A., Index Herb. Coll. A-D (1954): 96;
Briggs, Thomas Richard Archer (1836-1891)
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