> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 614](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33190085) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/12759-1) LSID 12759-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21607039) QID Q21607039 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### 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.