Background
William Barbey was born on 14 July 1842 at Genthod in the canton of Geneva.
William Barbey was born on 14 July 1842 at Genthod in the canton of Geneva.
He studied science at the Academy in Geneva and then engineering at the École Centrale de Paris. After his marriage, he studied botany and undertook botanical research in Spain, Palestine, Greece and Asia Minor.
From 1862 to 1869, he worked in New New York In 1885, he founded the publication Bulletin de l"Herbier Boissier, which in 1910 became the Bulletin de la société botanique de Genève. He built, largely at his own expense, the Yverdon–Saint-Croix railway.
However, as a supporter of Sunday observance, he insisted that the trains did not run on that day.
He lived in, and was an honorary citizen of, Valeyres-sous-Rances in the canton of Vaud. He died on 18 November 1914 at Chambésy.
The standard author transcript Barbey is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.
From 1885 to 1909, he was a Liberal member of the Grand Council of Vaud.