Cedric Bucknall (2 May 1849 in

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– 12 December 1921), was an English organist and botanist.

Life

He was the son of John Bucknall and Elizabeth Bassett. He married Abbie Cecilia Frye on 27 April 1873 in

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. Children: *Janet Mary Bucknall b. 1874 in Southwell *Arthur Bucknall b. 1875 *Basil Charles Bucknall b. 1877 *Dorothea Cecilia Bucknall b. 1879 *Constance Caroline Bucknall b. 1881 *Harold Bucknall b. 1882 *Cedric Gordon Bucknall b. 1885 He was buried in Cranford Cemetery,

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, Bristol.

Career

He held posts of: *Assistant organist at

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*Assistant Organist at

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*Organist of St. Thomas' Church, Clapton 1870 - 1872 *Organist of

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1873 - 1876 *Organist of All Saints' Church, Clifton,

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Botany

He was a distinguished amateur botanist, using every opportunity to travel across Europe and collect plants, which he then catalogued at leisure once home. His obituarist James Walter White intimates that Bucknall's original enthusiasm for music waned with the monotony of his jobs, and his real passion was for science, particularly botany. He travelled to "Carinthia, the Apennines, Naples, Sicily, the Baleares, and Southern Spain", in a typical fortnight amassing four hundred species. ''Fungi of the Bristol District'' described 1431 species, many of which he illustrated himself, and "100 of these were new to Britain or to science".

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bucknall, Cedric English cathedral organists 1849 births 1921 deaths People from Bath, Somerset 19th-century English botanists