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- George Claridge Druce, MA, LLD, JP, FRS, FLS was an English botanist and a Mayor of Oxford. G. Claridge Druce was born at Potterspury on Watling Street in Northamptonshire. He was the illegitimate son of Jane Druce, born 1815 in Buckinghamshire. He went to school in the village of Yardley Gobion. At 16, he was apprenticed to P. Jeyes & Co. , a pharmaceutical firm in Northampton. In 1872, he passed exams to become a pharmacist. His main interest was botany. In 1876, he was involved in the foundation of the Northampton Natural History Society. In June 1879, Druce moved to Oxford and set up his own chemist's shop, Druce & Co. , at 118 High Street, which continued until his death. He was one of the first in Oxford to have a telephone. He also featured as a shopkeeper in the Oxford novel Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm. In 1880, Druce helped to found the Ashmolean Natural History Society of Oxfordshire, originally established as the Ashmolean Society in 1828. It was merged with the Oxfordshire Natural History Society by Druce in 1901. In 1886 he published The Flora of Oxfordshire, in 1887 The Flora of Berkshire and in 1926 The Flora of Buckinghamshire. He was one of very few people to write a flora for more than one county. In 1889, he was awarded the degree of honorary MA by the University of Oxford and in 1895 he was appointed Fielding Curator in the Department of Botany at the University. Claridge Druce served on Oxford City Council from 1892 until his death, and was Chairman of the Public Health Committee. He served as Sheriff of Oxford during 1896–97. He presented the City of Oxford with the Sheriff's gold chain and badge, kept in the Town Hall, to commemorate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897. Druce served as Mayor of Oxford in 1900–01. A stone marking the city boundary at the top of Cuckoo Lane in the east Oxford suburb Headington was erected at the time and is engraved with his name. In 1920, Druce was made an Alderman and a portrait in his robes can be seen in the Council Chamber. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society and a Justice of the Peace. In 1909, Druce moved to 9 Crick Road. He named the house "Yardley Lodge", after the village in which he spent his youth. He died at his home aged 82 and was buried in Holywell Cemetery.
- George Claridge Druce war ein englischer Botaniker und Chemiker. Sein offizielles botanisches Autorenkürzel lautet „Druce“.
- George Claridge Druce (* Potterspury fue un farmacéutico y botánico inglés.
- George Claridge Druce est un naturaliste britannique, né le 23 mai 1850 à Potterspury, Northamptonshire et mort le 29 février 1932. Il étudie à Oxford où il obtient son Master of Arts et son Doctorat of Sciences. Il devient le conservateur de l’herbier de l'université d'Oxford. Membre de diverses sociétés savantes dont la Royal Society en 1927. Il devint maire d'Oxford en 1900. Druce est notamment l’auteur de : The flora of Oxfordshire: being a topographical and historical account of the flowering plants and ferns found in the county, with sketches of the progress of Oxfordshire botany during the last three centuries (Parker, Londres, 1886, réédité et enrichi en 1927 chez Clarendon Press, Oxford). Avec Sydney Howard Vines (1849-1934) pour le deuxième volume, An Account of the Herbarium of the University of Oxford. The flora of Berkshire: being a topographical and historical account of the flowering plants and ferns found in the county (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1897). Avec une préface de S.H. Vines The Dillenian Herbaria. An account of the Dillenian collections in the Herbarium of the University of Oxford, together with a biographical sketch of Dillenius, selections from his correspondence (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1907). List of British Plants, containing the Spermophytes, Pteridophytes and Charads found either as natives or growing in a wild state in Britain, Ireland, and the Channel Isles. Avec S.H. Vines An Account of the Morisonian Herbarium in the possession of the University of Oxford, together with biographical and critical sketches of Morison and the two Bobarts and their works, and the early history of the Physic Garden, 1619-1720 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1914). Avec Ida Margaret Hayward (1872-1949), The Adventive Flora of Tweedside (T. Buncle & Co. , Arbroath, 1919). The Flora of Buckinghamshire. With biographical notices of those who have contributed to its botany during the last three centuries (T. Buncle & Co. , Arbroath, 1926). The flora of West Ross. The flora of Northamptonshire (T. Buncle, Arbroath, 1930). The comital flora of the British Isles ... : being the distribution of British, including a number of non-indigenous, plants ... with the place of growth, elevation, world-distribution, grade, chief synonyms, and first names by which the plants were recorded as British (T. Buncle & Co. , Arbroath, 1932).
- George Claridge Druce foi um farmacêutico e botânico inglês.
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- George Claridge Druce, MA, LLD, JP, FRS, FLS was an English botanist and a Mayor of Oxford. G. Claridge Druce was born at Potterspury on Watling Street in Northamptonshire. He was the illegitimate son of Jane Druce, born 1815 in Buckinghamshire. He went to school in the village of Yardley Gobion. At 16, he was apprenticed to P. Jeyes & Co. , a pharmaceutical firm in Northampton. In 1872, he passed exams to become a pharmacist. His main interest was botany.
- George Claridge Druce war ein englischer Botaniker und Chemiker. Sein offizielles botanisches Autorenkürzel lautet „Druce“.
- George Claridge Druce (* Potterspury fue un farmacéutico y botánico inglés.
- George Claridge Druce est un naturaliste britannique, né le 23 mai 1850 à Potterspury, Northamptonshire et mort le 29 février 1932. Il étudie à Oxford où il obtient son Master of Arts et son Doctorat of Sciences. Il devient le conservateur de l’herbier de l'université d'Oxford. Membre de diverses sociétés savantes dont la Royal Society en 1927. Il devint maire d'Oxford en 1900.
- George Claridge Druce foi um farmacêutico e botânico inglês.
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