Thomas Hughes Corry
Thomas Hughes Corry (1860–1883) was a British botanist. He drowned at the age of 23 but was creditted as a co-author of Flora of the North East of Ireland with S.A.Stewart.[1]
Life
T.H.Corry studied botany at Cambridge and became Assistant to Cardale Babington. In 1877, as an undergraduate, he joined S.A. Stewart in the preparation of Flora of the North-east of Ireland. In 1879 he discovered Hieracium hypocharoides in Ireland. In August 1883, before he was 24, Corry, with a companion Charles Dickson, lost his life in a boating accident on Lough Gill.[2] Corry's British specimens in the Ulster Museum are dated mainly 1881 - 1883 and are mostly from England.
Corry remains a co-author of Flora of the North-east of Ireland which is still published in new editions.
References
- ↑ Chesney, ed. [by] John Wilson Foster [et] Helena C.G. (1998). Nature in Ireland : a scientific and cultural history. Montréal: McGill-Queen's University Press. p. 174. ISBN 0773518177. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
- ↑ Foster, John Wilson (1998). Nature in Ireland: A Scientific and Cultural History. McGill-Queen's Press. p. 174.
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