Cedric Bucknall

He held posts of:

• Assistant organist at St Matthias' Church, Stoke Newington under William Henry Monk^[1]
• Assistant Organist at King's College London
• Organist of St. Thomas' Church, Clapton 1870 - 1872
• Organist of Southwell Minster 1873 - 1876
• Organist of All Saints' Church, Clifton, Bristol

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He was a distinguished amateur botanist, using every opportunity to travel across Europe and collect plants, which he then catalogued at leisure once home. His obituarist James Walter White intimates that Bucknall's original enthusiasm for music waned with the monotony of his jobs, and his real passion was for science, particularly botany. He travelled to "Carinthia, the Apennines, Naples, Sicily, the Baleares, and Southern Spain", in a typical fortnight amassing four hundred species. Fungi of the Bristol District described 1431 species, many of which he illustrated himself, and "100 of these were new to Britain or to science".^[3]

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