The Concise British Flora in Colour

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The 2nd edition of the Flora was published in 1969: from 1965 to 1978 12 impressions were issued altogether of the three editions. Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-rc1-12-g88b4 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9479 Ocr_module_version 0.0.14 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-2000486 Openlibrary_edition Keble Martin collected plant specimens and pressed them to form a herbarium. He noted where he collected each specimen and the date. This data is very useful when assessing the change in species distribution over time. The University of Exeter gave this collection to RAMM in 1993. Some might be figured in ‘The Concise British Flora’ (more research is needed). Others are published elsewhere. For example, Keble Martin a summer near Bovey Tracey in Devon. He found a new locality for heath lobelia ( Lobelia urens) – a rare plant. He published his discovery in the Journal of Botany, 1901, p428. Keble Martin’s paintings Later, in 1896, Keble Martin attended Christ Church College Oxford to study Greek Philosophy, Church History and Botany. To begin with he drew mosses. Then he turned his attention to flowers because fellow students found them hard to identify. The publications available at the time had long wordy descriptions and no colour pictures. A career in the Church

Keble Martin’s interest in botany came at an early age. His maternal uncle taught him and his three brothers all they needed to know about collecting and rearing butterflies. Learning to identify caterpillar food plants was key to their success.Over a period of 15 years the brothers collected hundreds of butterflies. They made the cabinet themselves.Keble Martin "Chapel", by the Western Walla Brook, Dartmoor Life and work [ edit ] St Blaise, Haccombe, Reverend Martin held the position of Archpriest here from 1921 to 1934. The New Concise British Flora; with nomenclature edited and revised by Douglas H. Kent and foreword by The Duke of Edinburgh. London: Book Club Associates by arrangement with Ebury Press/ Michael Joseph (1982) In 1891 Keble Martin’s father became the Rector of Dartington near Totnes in Devon. Keble Martin became a keen birder recording their nesting and migratory habits. He returned to the family home frequently as an adult to visit the family, collect plants and observe the birds. Keble Martin’s book ‘Sketches for the Flora’ and his autobiography ‘Over the Hills …’ are helping to uncover where the drawings at RAMM fit in to Keble Martin’s story. He was educated at Marlborough, and went up to Christ Church, Oxford in 1896 to read Greek Philosophy and Botany. He trained for the church at Cuddesdon Theological College. After ordination, he worked in industrial parishes in the north and Midlands (one of these was Wath-upon-Dearne, the subject of his first book) and, in the First World War, as a chaplain in France. In 1921 he was offered the benefice of Haccombe and Coffinswell in Devon and in 1934 became the incumbent of St Michael and All Angels, Great Torrington. (He was the Archpriest of Haccombe and Rector of Coffinswell.) Keble Martin saw a vision of a new church in a dream, and his brother architect transformed the dream into reality - now a listed building, St Luke the Evangelist Church at Milber, Newton Abbot is remarkable for its exceptional interior space and extraordinary plan with three angled naves, linked by arcades with granite columns, which converge on the central altar. The exterior walls are white render with a pyramidal copper-clad roof on a squat square tower. Keble Martin retired in 1949 at the age of 72, but continued to work in the church.

He collected when he could. Friends also sent him hard to find specimens. Around 360 specimens came from 82 different botanists. RAMM’s watercolours are just a handful of the draft plates Keble Martin made while working on the book. As a result, each one matches a plate in ‘The Flora’. He drafted and redrafted until he was happy with the layout and the quality of the paper. None of the watercolours match the final publication exactly. Over the Hills … While waiting for a place at Cuddesdon Theology College Keble Martin earned a living as a tutor. While in Ireland some stitchwort flowers inspired the third plate for ‘The Concise British Flora’. Hewas ordained as a deacon on 21 December 1902 . A year later became a priest. His first challenge, at 25 years of age, was a neglected parish at Beeston in Nottinghamshire.This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.

urn:lcp:concisebritishfl0000mart:epub:377d6c6d-1f6b-45d1-b08e-ae779116507f Foldoutcount 0 Identifier concisebritishfl0000mart Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t6xx76g8d Invoice 1652 Isbn 0722105037 The Concise British Flora in Colour; with nomenclature edited by Douglas H. Kent and foreword by The Duke of Edinburgh. London: Ebury Press/ Michael Joseph (1965) I used to be able to refer to this book at primary school when it was firstpublished. I could happily sit for ages gazing at all the different plates of drawings of wild flowers. At the time, the focus was primarily on learning about and identifying wild flowers for a project. I now realise that this early exposure to botanical painting of specimens helped to generate a life long interest in botanical art.

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Find sources: "William Keble Martin"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( March 2019) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2021-11-03 07:05:56 Associated-names Kent, Douglas H. (Douglas Henry), 1920- Boxid IA40278317 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier After his wife’s death Keble Martin remarried. It was at this time that he received good news. Not only had the money needed to publish ‘The Concise British Flora’ been raised, Prince Philip agreed to write the foreword. Best-selling author Keble Martin’s life changed dramatically. One minute he was living a quiet, frugal life in his retirement. The next he was receiving attention from BBC film crews and attending fancy dinners in his honour. The University of Oxford’s School of Botany heralded him as one of the three best known botanists to pass through their doors. The other two were Sir Joseph Banks the naturalist and explorer and Sir John Lawes the founder of the Rothhampsted Station – the longest-running agricultural research institution in the world.

The Rev. William Keble Martin (9 July 1877 – 26 November 1969) was a Church of England priest, botanist and botanical illustrator, known for his Concise British Flora in Colour, published in May 1965 when the author was 88. Keble Martin lived a lonely and very frugal existence. Violet Chaworth-Musters accepted his proposal of marriage 28 March 1908 and he was lonely no longer. They married in July 1909. He took took a position at Wath-on-Dearne in Yorkshire. His work kept him overwhelmingly busy and he made few plant collecting trips and drawings. He was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1928, and later edited with G. T. Fraser the first volume of a comprehensive Flora of Devon (1939). In June 1966 he received an honorary degree of Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) from Exeter University. Four of his designs for an issue of wild flower stamps were accepted by the Royal Mail and issued in April 1967. [1] He published his autobiography, Over the Hills, shortly before he died in 1969 at the age of 92 at Woodbury, East Devon.W. Keble Martin & Fraser, Gordon Travers (eds.) Flora of Devon [Vol. 1] Phanerogams, vascular Cryptogams, Charophyta: promoted by the Devonshire Association; edited by ... W. Keble Martin ... Gordon T. Fraser ... With the assistance of ... Thomas Stephenson ... Francis M. Day. Arbroath: T. Buncle & Co. (1939) I rather suspect that there are other middle aged people like myself (and older) who also remember the impact this book had when it was first published in 1965. Drawing the plates was a labour of love. The ‘London Catalogue of British Plants’ in 100 sections became Keble Martin’s guide. He wrote,‘It was fairly easy to put an early drawing in some corner, and to fit those of related species beside them. This method led almost unawares to the plotting of the 100 plates’. Keble Martin was born in Radley, Oxfordshire, the grandson of Dr George Moberly, headmaster of Winchester and later Bishop of Salisbury. He was brother to architect Arthur Campbell Martin CVO FRIBA (1875–1963) and was also connected to John Keble of the Oxford Movement. His father was appointed as the Rector of Dartington, near Totnes, when William was 14 years old.