Background
He was born on 18 January 1827 in Lincoln, England.
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Benjamin Carrington
Edit ProfileBotanist lichenologist taxonomist
Education
He went to Edinburgh University to study medicine and graduated Doctor of Medicine in 1851.
Career
He was a specialist in bryophytes, cryptogams, fungi and lichens, and wrote extensively on these subjects. He worked as a General Practitioner variously in Radcliffe (near Manchester), Lincoln, Yeadon, Southport and Eccles, but he is remembered for his contributions to botany as an amateur collector and author In 1861 he was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society and he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1874, his proposers including Joseph Lister.
He died on his 66th birthday in Brighton on 18 January 1893.
He is buried in Carlton Hill Cemetery in Brighton. His portrait is held by Manchester University.
President of the Manchester Cryptogamic Society.
