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Nathaniel Haslope Mason

bap. 1827 d. 1904

Solicitor and botanist. Practising as a solicitor, 1851. Collected plants on Madeira, 1855–7. Published sets of Madeira ferns and woods. Private tutor, 1881. Specialist for defective speech, 1901. Fellow of the Linnean Society, 1856.

Sources

Census returns of England and Wales 1851 (The National Archives: Public Record Office HO107/1501/558/33), 1881 (RG11/255/117/35), 1901 (RG13/204/8/7)

R. Desmond 1994

England & Wales, national probate calendar (index of wills and administrations), 1858–1966, 1973–95 (Ancestry.com, accessed 23 January 2018)

London, England, Church of England births and baptisms, 1813–1916 (Ancestry.com, accessed 23 January 2018)

Bibliography

Desmond, Ray. 1994. Dictionary of British and Irish botanists and horticulturists including plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers. New edition, revised with the assistance of Christine Ellwood. London: Taylor & Francis and the Natural History Museum. Bristol, Pa.: Taylor & Francis.

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