> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 306](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33260294) of TL-2 Suppl. VI > Author links: [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16203318) QID Q16203318 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Ellacombe, \[Rev.\] Henry Nicholson (1822-1916), British clergyman very much interested in botany, born 18 Feb 1822 in Bitton (Glos.), BA at Oxford 1844, Rector of Bitton 1850, Hon. Canon of Bristol 1880, had a well-known garden and was known in the horticultural world, died 7 Feb 1916 at Bitton. **Abbreviated name**: *Ellacombe* #### Herbarium and types [[Collection BM|BM]](NH), [[Collection K|K]]. #### Bibliography and biography AG 2: 283; Barnhart 1: 504; BB p. 101; Bossert p. 115; Desmond p. 207; IH 2: 180; Jackson p. 10, 213; Morren ed. 10, p. 74; Rehder 5(index): 255; Tucker 1: 227. #### Biofile - Anon., Gardn. Chron. ser. 3. 59: 97. 12 Feb 1916 (d.); Kew Bull. 1916(2): 51. 30 Mar (on his horticultural knowledge); J. Bot. 54: 96. Mar 1916 (d. 10 Feb 1916 \[sic\]), 119. Apr 1916 (biogr.). - Bridson, G.D.R. et al., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl. 399 (index). 1980. - Elwes, H.J., Gardn. Chron. ser. 3. 59: 107-108. 19 Feb 1916 (biogr., portr.). - Fletcher, H.R., Story roy. hort. Soc. 1804-1968, p. 241-242, 301, 376, 537. 1969. - Hill, A.W., Henry Nicholson Ellacombe, Hon. Canon of Bristol, vicar of Bitton and rural dean, 1822-1916: a memoir. 318 pp. London. 1919. - Massingham, B., Country Life 166 (4297): 1792-1795. 1979 (A gardener beyond his parish...); A Century of gardeners: 44-53. 1982. - Nelmes, E. and D.C. Cuthbertson, Curtis's Bot.-Magaz. Dedic. 1827-1927: 214. 1932 (portr.). - Riddelsdell, H.J. et al., Fl. Gloucestershire cxxxi. 1948. - Stieber, M.T. et al., Huntia 4(1):79 (not 78). 1981. - Wittrock, V.B., Acta Horti Berg. 3(2): 92. 1903. ### Publications ##### n.32.705. plant-lore **Title** The *plant-lore* & (and) garden-craft of *Shakespeare* \[with an appendix\]... Exeter \[1878\]. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Pl.-lore Shakespeare*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1878 (according to date of preface), p. \[i-ii\], \[1\]-303. – No copy seen. – See Rehder 1: 515; Tucker 1: 227. *Note*: Originally published as a series of papers in "Garden" from Mar to Sep 1877. *Ed. 2*: 1884 (Nat. Nov. Aug (1-2) 1884), p. \[i\]-viii, \[1\]-438, issued in London. – No copy seen. – See Rehder 1: 515, BM 2: 522. "*New edition illustrated*": 1896 (p. \[v\] signed Nov 1896), London and New York (Edward Arnold), p. \[i\], uncol. frontisp., \[iii\]-xvi, \[1\]-383, \[384, imprint\], *15 pl*. (uncol. unnumb.), (32 p. advert.). *Copy*: U. *Ref*.: J.B., J. Bot. 16: 351. 1878 (ed. 1) (rev.).