Woods, Joseph
Variant namesEpithet: botanist
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Joseph Woods (1776-1864) was born in Stoke Newington on 24 August 1776, of a Quaker family. He attended a Friends' school at Tottenham until the age of 13, and in 1792 joined a firm in Dover to gain commercial experience. He soon gave up his position, and at the age of 22 began to study under a London architect. Woods established his own practice, but, after suffering litigation, he left the country in 1816. After three years on the continent he returned to England, and began work on a manual of field botany, which was published as The tourist's flora in 1850.
Woods visited Ireland in 1809 with two naturalist friends, L.W. Dillwyn and W.E. Leach, who accompanied him from Waterford to Killarney, before he travelled on his own to Limerick and Clare, visiting Connemara, and returning by generally the same route.
From the guide to the Joseph Woods: Journal of a Tour of Ireland, 1809, (Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives)
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| creatorOf | Joseph Woods: Journal of a Tour of Ireland, 1809 | Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives | |
| referencedIn | CORRESPONDENCE Of distinguished botanists, chiefly French and English, consisting for the most part of letters from Philip Barker Webb to H. B. A. Moquin-Tandon, and from others to the same and to Webb; 1784-1860. The names of all the writers are giv..., 1784-1860 | British Library | |
| creatorOf | SYDNEY SMIRKE: 286 letters from architects, artists and public figures, mostly to Sydney Smirke (b.1798, d.1877), architect of the British Museum Reading Room; 1793-1872. See also Add. 59847, 60756. Owned by F. R. Jemmett (see inside front cover). Pu..., 1793-1872 | British Library |
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