| LC control no. | n 92025872 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Lobb, William, 1809-1864 |
| Associated country | Great Britain |
| Associated place | Cornwall (England : County) |
| Birth date | 1809 |
| Death date | 1864-05-03 |
| Place of birth | Perranarworthal (England) |
| Place of death | San Francisco (Calif.) |
| Profession or occupation | Plant collectors |
| Found in | The Lobb brothers, woodcarvers to the aristocracy, 19--: t.p. (William Lobb) 2nd leaf from added t.p., etc. (b. 1809; d. 1864; plant collector) Wikipedia, September 26, 2014 (William Lobb; Cornish plant collector, employed by Veitch Nurseries of Exeter, who was responsible for the commercial introduction to England of Araucaria araucana (the "Monkey-Puzzle" tree) from Chile and the massive Sequoiadendron giganteum ("Wellingtonia") from North America; he and his brother, Thomas Lobb, were the first collectors to be sent out by the Veitch nursery business, with the primary commercial aim of obtaining new species and large quantities of seed; Lobb was born in 1809 at Perranarworthal, between Truro and Falmouth, Cornwall; he died May 3, 1864 at St. Mary's Hospital in San Francisco, California) |
| Associated language | eng |
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