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Charles C. P. (Charles Codrington Pressick) Hobkirk

1837–1902

A Victorian naturalist and writer with a gift for close observation, this Huddersfield-born author brought local history and the plant world to life for ordinary readers. He is especially remembered for work on British mosses and for an early wide-ranging study of Huddersfield and its surroundings.

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A Synopsis of the British Mosses Containing Descriptions of All the Genera and Species, (With Localities of the Rarer Ones) Found in Great Britain and Ireland, Based Upon Wilson's "Bryologia Britannica," Schimper's "Synopsis," Etc.

A Synopsis of the British Mosses Containing Descriptions of All the Genera and Species, (With Localities of the Rarer Ones) Found in Great Britain and Ireland, Based Upon Wilson's "Bryologia Britannica," Schimper's "Synopsis," Etc.

by Charles C. P. (Charles Codrington Pressick) Hobkirk

About the author

Born in Huddersfield in 1837, Charles Codrington Pressick Hobkirk was a British naturalist, scholar, and author whose interests ranged across local history, geology, botany, and zoology. He is known for Huddersfield: Its History and Natural History, first published in 1859, a book that set the town's story alongside the landscape and wildlife around it.

Hobkirk also became well known as a bryologist—a specialist in mosses. His best-known scientific work, A Synopsis of the British Mosses, helped document and describe moss species found in Great Britain and Ireland, showing the careful, methodical side of his writing.

Alongside his literary and scientific interests, he worked as a bank manager, balancing professional life with serious study of the natural world. He died in 1902, leaving behind books that reflect both Victorian curiosity and a lasting affection for the places and plants he studied.