Philip Burnard Ayres
1813–63
Surgeon and botanist. Pupil of John Lindley; studied cryptogams. Practised medicine in Thame, Oxfordshire, for ten years. Lecturer on chemistry at Charing Cross Hospital; physician to the Islington dispensary, 1851. Edited the Pharmaceutical Times. Superintendent of quarantine on Mauritius, 1856–63.
Sources
R. Desmond 1994
Modern English biography.
Bibliography
Desmond, Ray. 1994. Dictionary of British and Irish botanists and horticulturists including plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers. New edition, revised with the assistance of Christine Ellwood. London: Taylor & Francis and the Natural History Museum. Bristol, Pa.: Taylor & Francis.
Modern English biography: Modern English biography, containing many thousand concise memoirs of persons who have died since the year 1850. By Frederick Boase. 3 vols. and supplement (3 vols.). Truro, Cornwall: the author. 1892–1921.
