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The Bulley Chair - named after Arthur Kilpin Bulley.
The Bulley chair of Applied Plant Biology was named after Arthur
Kilpin Bulley (1861-1942), a Liverpool cotton broker, who was a keen naturalist
and gardener. Bulley was interested in introducing new plant species from
abroad. In particular, he believed that Himalayan and Chinese mountain plants
could be established in Britain.
In
order to test this theory, he sponsored expeditions to the Far East and in
doing so launched the careers of the renowned British plant collectors George
Forrest and Frank Kingdon Ward. From these collections he founded Bees Seeds to
introduce these new plants to the general public. He began to create a garden
in 1898, part of which he opened to local residents, and as such he laid the
foundations of one of the major British gardens. In 1948 his daughter Lois
gifted the gardens to the University of Liverpool, and they now manage the
gardens as an "open public park and flower garden" under the terms of the Agnes
Lois Bulley Trust.
Bulley was an unusual and gifted individual, his passion for plants is
recorded in the book by Brenda McLean A pioneering plantsman: A K Bulley and
the great plant hunters. HMSO:London (1997).
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Arthur Kilpin Bulley
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A Pioneering
Plantsman
by Brenda McLean
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Contact:
Applied Vegetation Dynamics Laboratory, School of Environmental
Sciences, Biosciences Building, Crown Street, University of
Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZB
Direct:
Professor Marrs +44 (0) 151 795 5172
Lab
telephone: +44 (0) 151 795 5173
Fax:+44
(0) 151 795 5171
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