IRVINE

Alexander (son of a farmer). b. Daviot, Aberdeen shire 1793; ed. at Marischal coll. Aberdeen; schoolmaster at Albury, Surrey, in London, at Bristol and at Guild ford; kept a school at Chelsea from 1851; connected with Irvingite ch. White Notley, E ex; a botanist in the neighbourhood of London; edited The Phytologist 6 vols. 1855–63; F.B.S.; author of The London Flora 1838, new ed. 1846; Illustrated handbook of British plants 1858; Botanists’ Chronicle 17 numbers 1865; Introduction to the science of botany 1858. d. Upper Manor st. Chelsea 13 May 1873. Journal of Botany (1873) p. 222; Gardeners’ Chronicle (1873) 1017.