14 Facts About Adrian Woodruffe-Peacock

Adrian Woodruffe-Peacock was an early exponent of the ecological approach to natural history recording.

Adrian Woodruffe-Peacock had 6 siblings, including the folklorist Mabel Peacock.

Adrian Woodruffe-Peacock was schooled at Edinburgh Academy and St Peter's School, York.

Adrian Woodruffe-Peacock then received private tuition in Lincolnshire until April 1877, when he was admitted to St John's College, Cambridge, to study mathematics, classics, science, and natural history.

Adrian Woodruffe-Peacock sat for the degree examination at Easter 1881, but "scratched", thinking that he had failed his Latin paper and choosing to make arrangements to leave before receiving the results.

Adrian Woodruffe-Peacock compiled a Critical Catalogue of Lincolnshire Plants, superseded by his Check-List of Lincolnshire Plants, allegedly based on an analysis of half a million observations.

Adrian Woodruffe-Peacock took a leading role in the foundation of the Lincolnshire Naturalists' Union in 1893, serving as organizing secretary in 1895 and president in 1905.

Adrian Woodruffe-Peacock was the prime mover in establishing a museum for Lincolnshire, his extensive herbarium forming an integral part of its original collections and the foundation of the city and county museum's herbarium.

Adrian Woodruffe-Peacock was elected a fellow of both the Linnean Society and the Geological Society in 1895.

Adrian Woodruffe-Peacock appreciated the mechanisms of dispersal, a neglected aspect of British ecology, which he approached through the careful study of microhabitats.

Adrian Woodruffe-Peacock was a pioneer in plotting the distribution of plants.

Adrian Woodruffe-Peacock published an article, "A fox-covert study" in the Journal of Ecology, recently founded by botanist Arthur Tansley.

Adrian Woodruffe-Peacock was tall and broad in proportion, but his health did not match up to his stature: most of his life he suffered from chronic hay fever and rheumatism.

Adrian Woodruffe-Peacock died on 3 February 1922 and was buried in an unmarked grave beside his sister.