Creator talk:Nathaniel John Winch
Sources
[edit]- Brief Biographies of British Mycologists compiled by Geoffrey C. Ainsworth
© British Mycological Society 1996
WINCH (Nathaniel John; 1768-1838), FLS (1803), botanist (lichenologist) and geologist of Newcastle-upon-Tyne was an iron-merchant and anchor smith. He was elected Sheriff in 1805 and from 1816 was secretary to the Newcastle Infirmary. His most important publication is his Botanists' Guide Through the Counties of Northumberland and Durham, in vol. 2 (edited by Winch and J. Thornhill), 1807, in which fungi and 260 lichens are listed. Subsequently he compiled 'The flora of Northumberland and Durham' (Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. Northumberl. 1832: 1-150; Addenda ibid. 1836: 151-9) in which the lichens are increased to 300. He sent specimens of Northumberland lichens to D. Turner & L. W. Dillwyn. He bequeathed his herbarium (20,000 specimens) to the Linnean Society but most of the lichen specimens are now lost. See also R. Waugh. DNB 2: 2298; Gilbert (1980): 331-4, port.; SC 7: 362; D: 669 (BB: 331).
- Gilbert, O. L. (1980). A lichen flora of Northumberland. Lichenologist 12:325:9
- Britten, J. & Boulger, G. S. (1931). A Biographical Index of Deceased British and Irish Botanists (revised by A. B. Rendle).
- Desmond, Dictionary of British and Irish Botanists and Horticulturalists, 1977 (a revision and extension of BB).