H. B. D. Woodcock

Who was H. B. D. Woodcock?

His Honour Judge Hubert Bayley Drysdale Woodcock, known as Judge Woodcock, was a British jurist and amateur botanist. He wrote and illustrated standard books and articles on Liliaceae, which he studied and cultivated at his estate at Lypiatt Park in the Gloucestershire Cotswolds.

His two principal works are Lilies of the World: Their Cultivation and Classification and Lilies: their culture and management: including a complete descriptive list of species.

Professionally, he was a barrister of the Middle Temple; K.C. 1923; a judge of the County Courts on circuit; and a member of the Mauritius Royal Commission of 1909. A Liberal in politics, he contested a number of Parliamentary seats on behalf of the Party 1910-18 without success.

He was the son of Thomas Woodcock, of Antigua, a British colonial administrator and Queen's Advocate of the Gold Coast colony. In 1891 he married Charlotte, daughter of George Boyce Gwyn, of Hampstead, by whom he had one son and two daughters.