William Woolls
Illustration — Studio Portrait of Reverend William Woolls, c. 1880, by J Herbert Newman William Woolls (30 March 1814 – 14 March 1893) was an Australian botanist, clergyman and schoolmaster. Woolls, the nineteenth child of merchant Edward Woolls, was born in Winchester, England and educated at the grammar school, Bishop's Waltham.
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William Woolls
Australian Dictionary of Biography · Public domain
- Born
- 1814 · Winchester.
- Died
- 1893 · Sydney.
- Nationality
- Australia · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Occupation
- botanist · writer · botanical collector
- Fields
- botany
- Education
- University of Göttingen
- Languages
- English
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Illustration — Studio Portrait of Reverend William Woolls, c. 1880, by J Herbert Newman William Woolls (30 March 1814 – 14 March 1893) was an Australian botanist, clergyman and schoolmaster. Woolls, the nineteenth child of merchant Edward Woolls, was born in Winchester, England and educated at the grammar school, Bishop's Waltham.
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He moved to Sydney on 16 April 1832, and was soon appointed an assistant-master at The King's School, Parramatta, having met William Grant Broughton—then Church of England Archdeacon of New South Wales—on the way out. He married Dinah Catherine Hall in 1838 and she bore a son and a daughter before dying in childbirth in 1844. In 1845, he married Ann Boag. According to K. Woolls was best known for his promotion of Australian botany and his assistance to other scholars rather than for large-scale systematic work." He died of paraplegia in the Sydney suburb of Burwood survived by his third wife.
William Woolls is recorded as botanist, writer and botanical collector.
Studio Portrait of Reverend William Woolls, c. 1880, by J Herbert Newman, Oxford Street, Sydney, from vintage print, State Library of New South Wales, PXA 1023
J Herbert Newman · State Library of New South Wales, PXA 1023
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1814
William Woolls born at Winchester.
1893
William Woolls died at Sydney.
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q1375232: William Woolls
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- “William Woolls”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- A contribution to the flora of Australia / by William Woolls, 1867
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 1867
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A contribution to the flora of Australia / by William Woolls, 1867
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