Charles Du Bois Larbalestier

1838 - 1911  (72 years)

• Name	Charles Du Bois Larbalestier  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  Born	29 Oct 1838	St. Brelade, Jersey, Channel Islands   [1, 3, 4, 5, 6]
  Gender	Male
  Died	04 Apr 1911	St. Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands   [1]
  Notes	Entered St John's College, Cambridge, Lent, 1860. Adm. sizar at ST JOHN'S, Oct. 8, 1859. [S. of John, and Jane Bosdet. B. Oct. 29, 1838. Bapt. at St Brelade's, Jersey.] Matric. Lent, 1860; B.A. 1863; M.A. 1885. Botanist; the chief English authority on lichens. Supplied much of the information for the last edition of Leighton's Lichen Flora, which was dedicated to him. Had a very fine collection of specimens. Died Apr. 4, 1911, at St Helier, Jersey. (The Times, Apr. 8 and 11, 1911.) Larbalestier was born in Jersey in 1838, took his B.A. degree at Cambridge in 1863, and became tutor in the family of Mitchell-Henry, of Kylemore Castle in Connemara. He collected lichens assiduously in Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Cambridge, sending his finds to Nylander and Leighton, the former recording them in Flora and the latter in his well-known Lichen Flora. He also issued nine fascicles of a lichen-herbarium. Miss Lorrain Smith named Microgloena larbalestieri after him. Britten & Boulger, ed. 2, 180. Knowles in Proc. R.I. Acad., 38 8,186.
  Person ID	I144	Bosdet Genealogy
  Last Modified	16 May 2013

  
  

  Father	John Larbalestier,   d. Bef Apr 1861
  Relationship	Natural
  Mother	Jane Bosdet,   b. 22 Sep 1809, St. Aubin, Jersey, Channel Islands
  Relationship	Natural
  Married	12 Mar 1835	St. Brelade, Jersey, Channel Islands   [7]
  Family ID	F190	Group Sheet

  
  

• Sources

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