Samuel Alexander Stewart (1826,

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Life

Stewart was born to an Irish family in Philadelphia in 1826. He was by profession a trunk maker but his interest was in plants. His mother died in America and his father returned to Ireland in 1837. Stewart left school at eleven initially worked with his fathers at a distillers. Eventually both of them worked in his family's trunk-making business. Whilst we worked Stewart had a very thin education from the local Sunday school.Samuel Stewart
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's science classes from 1860 and he was a founder member of the

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.Crowther, Peter. 2013. ''Citizen Science 150 years of the Belfast Naturalists' Field Club.'' National Museums Northern Ireland. He became an assistant curator of the Belfast Natural History Society Museum Eleven years later in 1891 he was appointed

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. He died after falling whilst crossing the road. Samuel Alexander Stewart is best known for editing Stewart, S.A. & Corry, Thomas, Hughes. 1888 ''The flora of the north-east of Ireland''. Corry (1860 - 1883) drowned in Lough Gill, Co. Sligo and Stewart completed the ''Flora'' alone.

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''Some Irish naturalists: A Biographical Note-book'' W.Tempest, Dundalgan Press, Dundalk, 1949

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Herbaria United
118 digital images of herbarium specimens collected by Mr Samuel Alexander Stewart
Irish Natural History Literature
partial bibliography {{DEFAULTSORT:Stewart, Samuel Alexander 20th-century Irish botanists 1826 births 1910 deaths 19th-century Irish botanists American emigrants to the United Kingdom

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