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Sainsbury, George Osborne King (1880-1957)
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)
George Osborne King
Last name
Sainsbury
Initials
G.O.K.
Life Dates
1880 - 1957
Specification
Plant collector
Groups collected
Bryophytes
Organisation(s)
WELT (main), AK, AKU, BM, BR, CHR, COL, DPU (currently NY), F, FH, H, LD, MEL, MICH, NMW, NY, PH, WELC
Countries
Australasia: New Zealand
Associate(s)
Allison, Kenneth Willway (1894-1976)(co-collector)Hodgson, Eliza Amy (c. 1889-1983)(co-collector)Martin, William (1886-1975)(correspondent)Dixon, Hugh Neville (1861-1944)(co-author, correspondent)Willis, James Hamyln (Jim) (1910-1995)(correspondent)
Biography
Leading 20th century bryologist in New Zealand. Sainsbury was also a practising barrister and solicitor. George Sainsbury was born at Napier, where his father practised as a barrister. Sainsbury followed his father into the profession, setting up in Gisborne in 1903. After eight years in this field he gave up law to become a farmer, but resumed practice six years later in partnership with his brother in Wairoa. Wairoa would become Sainsbury's long-term home with his wife, Edith Sherratt, and their three children.
It was in about 1920 that he took up botany as a pastime, quickly beginning to specialise in bryophytes. His first paper, published in 1923, was on the rare New Zealand shrub Pittosporum obcordatum Raoul, and was followed by numerous further papers published in journals such as The Bryologist and the Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand. Sainsbury became particularly active after he retired in 1946, when he was able to devote himself to the bryology of New Zealand, and later, of Tasmania and Australia too.
A close collaborator of the English bryologist Hugh Neville Dixon, together they published 23 new species and two new varieties of bryophyte, with Sainsbury describing a further seven species himself. He mainly collected on New Zealand's North Island, where he was an enthusiastic climber. Collections made by E.A. Hodgson, K.W. Allison and W. Martin also helped him to compile a list of indigenous mosses. In 1955 his Handbook of the New Zealand Mosses appeared, which became a standard text. The following year, however, Sainsubry's health took a turn for the worse when he suffered a stroke. He had begun to overhaul Leonard Rodway's Tasmanian herbarium in his later years and collaborated with J.H. Willis on the mosses of Victoria. Dixon named the genus Sainsburia Dixon in his honour. Sainsbury's herbarium was deposited at the Dominion Museum in Wellington.
Sources:
W. Martin, 1957, "G.O.K. Sainsbury, FLS", The Bryologist, 60(4): 363-367
J.H. Willis, 1957, Victorian Naturalist, 74: 118-120.
It was in about 1920 that he took up botany as a pastime, quickly beginning to specialise in bryophytes. His first paper, published in 1923, was on the rare New Zealand shrub Pittosporum obcordatum Raoul, and was followed by numerous further papers published in journals such as The Bryologist and the Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand. Sainsbury became particularly active after he retired in 1946, when he was able to devote himself to the bryology of New Zealand, and later, of Tasmania and Australia too.
A close collaborator of the English bryologist Hugh Neville Dixon, together they published 23 new species and two new varieties of bryophyte, with Sainsbury describing a further seven species himself. He mainly collected on New Zealand's North Island, where he was an enthusiastic climber. Collections made by E.A. Hodgson, K.W. Allison and W. Martin also helped him to compile a list of indigenous mosses. In 1955 his Handbook of the New Zealand Mosses appeared, which became a standard text. The following year, however, Sainsubry's health took a turn for the worse when he suffered a stroke. He had begun to overhaul Leonard Rodway's Tasmanian herbarium in his later years and collaborated with J.H. Willis on the mosses of Victoria. Dixon named the genus Sainsburia Dixon in his honour. Sainsbury's herbarium was deposited at the Dominion Museum in Wellington.
Sources:
W. Martin, 1957, "G.O.K. Sainsbury, FLS", The Bryologist, 60(4): 363-367
J.H. Willis, 1957, Victorian Naturalist, 74: 118-120.
References
Brummitt, R.K. & Powell, C.E., Authors Pl. Names (1992): 554; Lanjouw, J. & Stafleu, F.A., Index Herb. Coll. A-D (1954): 32; Vegter, H.I., Index Herb. Coll. S (1986): 809;
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)
George Osborne King
Last name
Sainsbury
Initials
G.O.K.
Life Dates
1880 - 1957
Specification
Plant collector
Groups collected
Bryophytes
Organisation(s)
WELT (main), AK, AKU, BM, BR, CHR, COL, DPU (currently NY), F, FH, H, LD, MEL, MICH, NMW, NY, PH, WELC
Countries
Australasia: New Zealand
Associate(s)
Allison, Kenneth Willway (1894-1976)(co-collector)Hodgson, Eliza Amy (c. 1889-1983)(co-collector)Martin, William (1886-1975)(correspondent)Dixon, Hugh Neville (1861-1944)(co-author, correspondent)Willis, James Hamyln (Jim) (1910-1995)(correspondent)
Biography
Leading 20th century bryologist in New Zealand. Sainsbury was also a practising barrister and solicitor. George Sainsbury was born at Napier, where his father practised as a barrister. Sainsbury followed his father into the profession, setting up in Gisborne in 1903. After eight years in this field he gave up law to become a farmer, but resumed practice six years later in partnership with his brother in Wairoa. Wairoa would become Sainsbury's long-term home with his wife, Edith Sherratt, and their three children.
It was in about 1920 that he took up botany as a pastime, quickly beginning to specialise in bryophytes. His first paper, published in 1923, was on the rare New Zealand shrub Pittosporum obcordatum Raoul, and was followed by numerous further papers published in journals such as The Bryologist and the Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand. Sainsbury became particularly active after he retired in 1946, when he was able to devote himself to the bryology of New Zealand, and later, of Tasmania and Australia too.
A close collaborator of the English bryologist Hugh Neville Dixon, together they published 23 new species and two new varieties of bryophyte, with Sainsbury describing a further seven species himself. He mainly collected on New Zealand's North Island, where he was an enthusiastic climber. Collections made by E.A. Hodgson, K.W. Allison and W. Martin also helped him to compile a list of indigenous mosses. In 1955 his Handbook of the New Zealand Mosses appeared, which became a standard text. The following year, however, Sainsubry's health took a turn for the worse when he suffered a stroke. He had begun to overhaul Leonard Rodway's Tasmanian herbarium in his later years and collaborated with J.H. Willis on the mosses of Victoria. Dixon named the genus Sainsburia Dixon in his honour. Sainsbury's herbarium was deposited at the Dominion Museum in Wellington.
Sources:
W. Martin, 1957, "G.O.K. Sainsbury, FLS", The Bryologist, 60(4): 363-367
J.H. Willis, 1957, Victorian Naturalist, 74: 118-120.
It was in about 1920 that he took up botany as a pastime, quickly beginning to specialise in bryophytes. His first paper, published in 1923, was on the rare New Zealand shrub Pittosporum obcordatum Raoul, and was followed by numerous further papers published in journals such as The Bryologist and the Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand. Sainsbury became particularly active after he retired in 1946, when he was able to devote himself to the bryology of New Zealand, and later, of Tasmania and Australia too.
A close collaborator of the English bryologist Hugh Neville Dixon, together they published 23 new species and two new varieties of bryophyte, with Sainsbury describing a further seven species himself. He mainly collected on New Zealand's North Island, where he was an enthusiastic climber. Collections made by E.A. Hodgson, K.W. Allison and W. Martin also helped him to compile a list of indigenous mosses. In 1955 his Handbook of the New Zealand Mosses appeared, which became a standard text. The following year, however, Sainsubry's health took a turn for the worse when he suffered a stroke. He had begun to overhaul Leonard Rodway's Tasmanian herbarium in his later years and collaborated with J.H. Willis on the mosses of Victoria. Dixon named the genus Sainsburia Dixon in his honour. Sainsbury's herbarium was deposited at the Dominion Museum in Wellington.
Sources:
W. Martin, 1957, "G.O.K. Sainsbury, FLS", The Bryologist, 60(4): 363-367
J.H. Willis, 1957, Victorian Naturalist, 74: 118-120.
References
Brummitt, R.K. & Powell, C.E., Authors Pl. Names (1992): 554; Lanjouw, J. & Stafleu, F.A., Index Herb. Coll. A-D (1954): 32; Vegter, H.I., Index Herb. Coll. S (1986): 809;
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