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Last Name Bolus

Given Name Harry

alt. Names H. B. ;

Marriage Sophia Kensit

Children 1 daughter ->Harriet Margaret Louisa Bolus (1877-1970) , 3 sons, among them artist Frank

Year born 1834 in Nottingham, England

Year died 1911

Place of death Oxted, Surrey

Father's occupation

Relatives Walter Bolus (brother) ; William Kensit (brother-in-law) ;

Education Casle Gate School Nottingham

Country of Activity South Africa

Worked for George Herbert ; William Kensit ; Bolus: Icones Orchidearum Austro-Africanum (1893-1913) ; B. & Wolley-Dod: Flowering plants ferns Cape ; F. Guthrie & N. E. Brown: Ericaceae ;

Patronage Linnean Society, Royal Society of South Africa; founding member of SA Philosophical Society

Collaborators botanist William Kensit ; stockbrokerage with his brother Walter Bolus ;

Techniques medical & botanical painting

Sample(s) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Harry_Bolus00.jpg ; http://plantillustrations.org/artist.php?id_artist=779&mobile=0

Archival sources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Bolus ;

Published sources

other Founded Bolus Herbarium.

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