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### Author
Reader, \[Henry Charles Lyon\] Peter (1850-1929), British clergyman (Dominican priest) and botanist; MA Oxford (Merton College); admitted to the Dominican order 1876, ordained 1878, professed 1881; had various assignations at London, Leicester, Hinckley and Woodchester; from 1926 again at Hinckley.
**Abbreviated name**: *P. Reader* \[standard form in IPNI: *P.Reader*\]
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection BRIST|BRIST]] (4000); other material at [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection DBN|DBN]], [[Collection E|E]], [[Collection LIV|LIV]], [[Collection LSR|LSR]], [[Collection OXF|OXF]] and [[Collection STO|STO]].
#### Bibliography and biography
BL 2: 266, 706; BM 4: 1657; Clokie p. 230; Desmond p. 514-515; IH 1 (ed. 6): 363, 2: (in press); LS 21856.
#### Biofile
- Allen, D.E., Newsletter Soc. Bibl. nat. Hist. 15: 10. 1982.
- Bridson, G.D.R. et al., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl. 84.21. 1980.
- Edees, E.S., Fl. Staffordshire 21-22. 1972.
- Gumbley, W., Obit. notic. Engl. Dominicans 1555-1952, London 1955, p. 157 (biogr. sketch, b. 12 Aug 1850, d. 11 Mai 1929); "his natural diffidence prevented him leaving any printed record of his \[botanical\] work").
- Hawksworth, D.L. & M.R.D. Seaward, Lichenol. Brit. Isl. 26, 138-139, 198. 1977.
- Horwood, A.R. & C.W.F. Noel, Fl. Leicestershire and Rutland ccxxviii, 678. 1933.
- Kent, D.H., Brit. herb. 74. 1957.
- Mitchell, M.E., Bibl. Irish lichenol. 55. 1971.
- Riddelsdell, H.J., Fl. Gloucestershire cxxxviii. 1948.
- Wade, A.E., Fl. Monmouthshire 14. 1970.
#### Composite works
Contributed *The hepaticae of Gloucestershire* to C.A. Witchell & W.B. Strugnell, *The fauna and flora of Gloucestershire*, 1892.