Anthony Hurt Wolley-Dod

Who was Anthony Hurt Wolley-Dod?

Anthony Hurt Wolley-Dod was a British soldier and botanist. The fourth son of the Rev. Charles Wolley-Dod, of Edge Hall, Cheshire, an assistant master at Eton, and his wife Frances Lucy Pelly, he trained at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, was commissioned to the Royal Artillery in 1881 and retired as a Major in 1901. In the First World War he was remobilized and served as Lieutenant Colonel. He collected plants in South Africa, Gibraltar, California and extensively in the United Kingdom. He donated his collection of several thousand South African specimens to the British Museum, to which he also bequeathed his herbarium. He married firstly, in 1888, Agnes Gardyne Macintosh, who bore him a daughter, Mabel Florence; he married secondly, on 4th April 1922, Eileen Griffin.