Charles Bagge Plowright, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Charles Bagge Plowright

British doctor and mycologist

Date of Birth: 03-Apr-1849

Place of Birth: King's Lynn, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 24-Apr-1910

Profession: surgeon, botanist, mycologist

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Charles Bagge Plowright

  • Charles Bagge Plowright (3 April 1849 – 24 April 1910) was a British doctor and mycologist. Plowright trained as a doctor at the West Norfolk and Lynn Hospital, eventually becoming a surgeon there.
  • He was also a Medical Officer for Health for many years in Freebridge Lynn, and was the Hunterian Professor of Comparative Anatomy and Physiology at the Royal College of Surgeons from 1890 to 1894.
  • While a professor he gave lectures on ergot and fungi in the human body which were noted in the British Journal of Medicine.Plowright's most significant contributions were in mycology.
  • In 1872 he published a list of 800 Norfolk fungi in the Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society and was elected an honorary member.
  • Starting in 1873, Plowright published a series of fasciculi (pamphlets intended to be collected into a book) titled Sphaeriacei Britannici describing members of the fungal genus Sphaeria (species modernly placed in Pseudovalsa, Macrospora, Homostegia, and others).
  • With his collaborator William Phillips, Plowright published a series of papers titled New and Rare British Fungi (1871–1884) which described almost 300 new species.
  • Plowright contributed to The Gardeners' Chronicle for over thirty years, writing principally on fungal diseases of plants; he was an early advocate in England of the use of Bordeaux mixture.
  • Early in his career he made a special collection of Pyrenomycetae (now Sordariomycetes) and published several papers on them; he later moved on to the Uredinaceae, in 1889 publishing A Monograph of the British Uredinaea and Ustilaginaea.
  • He was one of the early organizers of the British Mycological Society and served as president in 1898–9. Plowright had an interest in archaeology and published a number of articles on the subject, including several works on woad.Plowright also was active in his local community, serving as a local magistrate, director and vice-chairman of a local girl's high school, and governor of the Lynn Grammar School.

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