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- Name Saunders, William Wilson Date 04 June 1809 - 13 September 1879 BirthPlace Little London, near Wendover, Buckinghamshire, England DeathPlace Worthing, Sussex Nationality British Gender Male Fellowship Fellow Citation The Author of numerous pap ers in the Transactions of the Entomological Society. Distinguished for his acquaintance with the science of Botany and Entomology. Eminent as an Entomologist & Botanist. Proposers From General Knowledge. Charles Pritchard; Tho Hoblyn; Rd Twinin g From Personal Knowledge. W H Sykes; John Edward Gray; Robert Brown; John J Bennett; Wm Jackson Hooker; N B Ward; Robert Hudson; John Miers; Daniel Sharpe; Thomas Horsfield; J S Bowerbank ElectionDate 2/06/1853 Address East Hill, Wandsworth, Surr ey (1853) Profession Underwriter ResearchField Entomology, botany Memberships FLS RelatedMaterial Cert IX, 327 RelatedMaterial EC/1853/14 William Wilson Saunders 1809-79 William Wilson Saunders was born in Little London, Wendover, Bucks on 4th Jun e, 1809. He was an underwriter at Lloyds of London and was primarily an entomologist as well as a botanist. He was president of the Entomological Society on two occasions, 1841-1842 and 1856 - 1857. His botanical contributions include: Refugium Bo tanicum, 1868-73; Mycological Illustrations, 1871-2. Potentilla saundersiana Royle is named after him. William Wilson Saunders died in Worthing, Sussex, 13 September 1879. There are specimens in the Bromfield Herbarium collected by William Wilso n Saunders between 1840-1842 from Battersea, Wandsworth and Oxon W.W. Saunders was the second son of James Saunders, vicar of Kirtlington, Oxfordshire, and was born at Little London, near Wendover, Bucks. He later (from c.1831) resided at East Hil l, Wandsworth and (from 1857) at Reigate, Surrey, retiring finally to Worthing in 1874. Details of his career may be found in the D.N.B. article where it is stated that "Few contributed more to the advancement of entomology and botany". He was a n original member of the Entomological Society and a fellow of the Royal Society, the Zoological Society and others
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1809 - 1879 (70 years)
