Braine, Arthur Belgrave (1854 - 1945)

Summary

Arthur Braine was a Victorian schoolteacher and amateur orchidologist. In 1922 Prasophyllum Brainei, the Green Leek Orchid, was named after him.

Details

Born England, 9 September 1854. Died Melbourne, 6 October 1945. Coffee planter, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) for many years; school teacher in various parts of Victoria, including Cravensville (near Tallangatta); first person to undertake an orchid survey of north east Victoria, publishing a series of 23 articles on "In Quest of Orchids" in "The Federal Standard", Chiltern, Victoria, 1917-18.

Archival resources

Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science

• Australian Botanists - Biographies, MS 064; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details

State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection

• Arthur Belgrave Braine - Records, 1917 - 1918, MS 11571; State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection. Details

Published resources

Resources

• Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q61959479. Details
• 'Braine, Arthur Belgrave (18540909-19451006)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1477206. Details

See also

• Willis, J. H., 'Botanical pioneers in Victoria - II', Victorian Naturalist, 66 (6) (1949), 103-9. Details
• Willis, J. H., Botanical Pioneers in Victoria, vol. 66 ([Melbourne]: [Brown Prior Anderson], 1949), 19 pp. Details