Excerpt from The Phytologist, Vol. 5: A Popular Botanical Miscellany
Mr. Luxfohd, the able superintendent of the 'Phytologist,' died, at his residence in Hill Street, Walworth, on Monday, the 12th of June, in the forty-eighth year of his age. He was born at Sutton, in Surrey, on the 7th of April, 1807, but shortly removed to Reigate, where, at the early age of 11, he was placed under Mr. Allingham, a printer and stationer. Mr. Allinghatn's kindness care and judgment, exercised for a period of sixteen years, tended mainly to the attainment of that useful knowledge which Mr. Luxford eventually possessed. While with Mr. Allingham he not only mastered the printing business, but also gained an intimate acquaintance with the Greek, Latin and French languages, and a vast store of historical, geographical, literary and scientific information. At a very early age he made Batany his favourite study, and the neighbourhood of Reigate was the field in which he devotedly pursued it. In 1834 he removed to Birmingham, taking a situation in the engraving and printing establishment of Mr. Allen; and in 1837 he commenced business as a printer in Ratcliff Highway. The next year he wrote, printed and published the 'Flora of Reigate,' a work that bears ample testimony to the accuracy and extent of his botanical acquirements. In 1841 he commenced the Phytologist, superintendence over which he exercised up to the publication of the June number. In 1844 Mr. Luxford obtained employment on the 'Globe' newspaper, which, however, be relinquished in the following year, and took the subeditorship of the 'Westminster Review,' reading and revising the whole, and writing the shorter notices and occasionally the more important papers. In 1846 he obtained the Lectureship on Botany at St. Thomas's Hospital. In 1851 he gave up both these engagements, and came to Devonshire Street, where he continued, as compositor aud reader, up to the time of his death.
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