Item NRC/1/2/2 - Notebook: Original Notes on British Roses, Vol. II, by A H Wolley Dod

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Notebook: (handwritten) title; A.H Wolley-Dod, Original Notes on British Roses, Vol. II.

Admin History: Anthony Hurt Wolley-Dod (17 November 1861, in Eton College, Buckinghamshire – 21 June 1948, in Mayfield Sussex) was a British soldier and botanist. The fourth son of the Rev. Charles Wolley-Dod, of Edge Hall, Cheshire, an assistant master at Eton, and his wife Frances Lucy Pelly, he trained at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, was commissioned to the Royal Artillery in 1881 and retired as a Major in 1901. In the First World War he was remobilized and served as Lieutenant Colonel. He collected plants in South Africa, Gibraltar, California and extensively in the United Kingdom. He donated his collection of several thousand South African specimens to the British Museum, to which he also bequeathed his herbarium.