The Concise British Flora in Colour

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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’. The 2nd edition of the Flora was published in 1969: from 1965 to 1978 12 impressions were issued altogether of the three editions. 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. 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.

Find sources: "William Keble Martin"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( March 2019) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) 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.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 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. 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 … 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. urn:lcp:concisebritishfl0000mart:epub:377d6c6d-1f6b-45d1-b08e-ae779116507f Foldoutcount 0 Identifier concisebritishfl0000mart Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t6xx76g8d Invoice 1652 Isbn 0722105037

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 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 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) 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.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 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.