Biography

George Henslow (1835-1925), botanist, was born on 23 March 1835 in Cambridge. He was educated privately at the vicarage at Sawston, near Cambridge, then at King Edward VI's Grammar School, Bury St Edmunds. He entered Christ's College, Cambridge, in 1854 and graduated in 1858 with a first class in the natural sciences tripos together with a second class in both mathematics and divinity. After ordination his first curacy was at Steyning, Sussex, from 1859 to 1861, followed by two consecutive appointments as headmaster of grammar schools at Hampton Lucy, Warwickshire, and London (Store Street). From 1886 to 1890 he held the lectureship in botany at St Bartholomew's medical school, and was honorary professor of botany to the Royal Horticultural Society from 1880 to 1918. Henslow died at his home, Danehurst, 40 Branksome Wood Road, Bournemouth, on 30 December 1925 and was buried in Bournemouth cemetery.

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