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Authorised form of nameLister; Arthur (1830 - 1908); botanist
Dates1830 - 1908
NationalityBritish
Place of birthUpton House, Upton, Essex, England
Date of birth17 April 1830
Place of deathHighcliff, Lyme Regis, Dorset, England
Date of death19/07/1908
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
Leytonstone, Essex, England
OccupationWine merchant and Botanist
Research fieldBotany
ActivityEducation: Hitchin
Career: Partner in firm of Lister and Beck, wine merchants, in the City of London (1846); retired from business (1888) and began his botanical investigations; published his works in Annals of Botany, the Journal of the Linnean Society, and the Proceedings of the Essex Field Club; 'A Monograph of the Mycetozoa', featuring 78 plates produced by his daughter, Gulielma Lister, issued by the Trustees of the British Museum (1894); compiled the British Museum's 'Guide to the British Mycetozoa (1895).

Memberships:
FLS (1873)
President of the Mycological Society (1906-7)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election09/06/1898
Age at election68
ProposerW Carruthers; G Murray; William H Flower; C B Clarke; D Oliver; William Roberts; I B Balfour; M T Masters; J Murray; E R Lankester; Joseph D Hooker
RelationshipsParents: Joseph Jackson Lister (FRS 1832) and Isabella Lister
Siblings: Joseph Lister (FRS 1860); John Lister; Isaac Lister; Mary Lister; Isabella Sophia Lister; William Henry Lister; Samuel Henry Lister; Jane Lister
Spouse: Susanna Lister (1855), daughter of William Tindall of East Dulwich
Children: Gulielma Lister, botanical illustrator; Joseph Jackson Lister, zoologist (FRS 1900); Isabella Lister; Edith Mary Lister; Arthur Hugh Lister, II; Ellen F Lister; William Tindall Lister
PublishedWorksRCN 50468
RCN 50469
RCN 50467
OtherInfoKnown for his research on Mycetozoa, specifically taxonomy of Mycetozoa.
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series B 1914-1915 vol 88 pp i-xi, signed by J J L
CodeNA1657
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
NLB/16/596Copy letter of a notice from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to [The Times]5 May 1898
EC/1898/08Lister, Arthur: certificate of election to the Royal Society
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