The Concise British Flora in Colour

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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 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. 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.

He collected when he could. Friends also sent him hard to find specimens. Around 360 specimens came from 82 different botanists. 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 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. 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. 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.

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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)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) 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.