PAMPLIN, WILLIAM (1806-1899), botanist;
b. in Chelsea, 5 Aug. 1806. In 1827 he published a list of the rare plants of Battersea and Chelsea. He wrote a great deal for the Magazine of Natural History and became editor of The Phytologist in 1855; he married Caroline Hunneman, the dau. of the owner of the journal. Frequent visits to north Wales deepened his affection for the area and after retiring in 1864 from his business as a publisher and bookseller he settled in Llandderfel, Mer., where he built a house (Pen-y-llan) and lived for the rest of his life studying the botany and birds of the countryside. His wife d. in 1876, and he m. Margaret Parry of Blaen-y-cwm, Bethel, Llandderfel, in 1878. He d. 9 Sept. 1899 and was b. in Llandderfel.
Bibliography:
- Yr Haul, Nov. and Dec. 1939;
- Jnl. of Botany, Dec. 1899 (where it is incorrectly stated that he was b. in Wandsworth);
- Jnl. of Meironeth Hist. Soc., 1 (1949) and 2 (1950).
- Some of his MSS. are in N.L.W. and others in the Univ. of Wales, Bangor.
Author:
Evan Roberts, M.B.E., (1877-1958), Llandderfel
