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THE REV. HILDERIC FRIEND died in his eighty-eighth year at his home in Solihull, Birmingham, after a long illness. He was born at High Wigsell in Kent in 1852, but spent his early years in the vicinity of Hastings and always regarded himself as a Sussex man. In 1874 he entered the Wesley an College at Richmond to train for the ministry, and two years later he sailed as a missionary to China. Ill-health compelled him to return home in 1880 and, with a view to his recuperation, he was given a series of country circuits for his pastoral care. His first was at Newton Abbott in Devonshire, where he spent much time in the open air and began to study field botany systematically. Here he wrote “A Glossary of Devonshire Plant Names”. This was succeeded in 1884 by “Flowers and Flower Lore” and by “The Ministry of Flowers” in 1885.
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The Rev. Hilderic Friend. Nature 145, 414 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145414b0
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