Rendle

According to the (British) Dictionary of National Biography, Alfred Barton Rendle (1865-1938), botanist, was born in Lewisham, London, on 19 January 1865, the eldest child and only son of John Samuel Rendle, secretary to a London building society, and his wife, Jane Wilson, daughter of John Barton, of Rotherfield, Sussex.

Rendle was president of the South London Botanical Institute, a position he held from 1911 until his death. He had become keeper of Botany at the British Museum (Natural History) in 1906 and edited the Journal of Botany from 1924 until near the end of his life.