[1][2][3][4][5][6] Born 1 September 1908 in Hove, he was educated at St Olave's School, London (1925).
He attended evening classes at Birkbeck College, tutored by Prof Dame Helen Gwynne-Vaughan (Botany) and Prof H G Jackson (Zoology) and obtained his Higher School Certificate and Intermediate B.Sc.
Winning by competition a Marshall's Exhibition he went to New College, Oxford, where he obtained a first class degree in botany (1932).
He worked there as a demonstrator and later research assistant to Dr James (1935-1937), obtaining his DPhil in 1936 for plant physiology.
[2] From 1937 to 1940 he was assistant in the herbarium, department of systematic botany, Imperial Forestry Institute, Oxford, under Dr J Burtt Davy, where he worked on the flora of Tropical East Africa.
[3] From 1940 to 1973 he was lecturer and later reader (1964) in the botany department at University of Reading.
[3] After his retirement he contributed to "Flowering Plants of the World", edited by Prof V H Heywood, and was Consultant Editor for "The Oxford Encyclopedia of Trees of the World".
[3] He married Carol Annis, 1940, in Oxford, and they had a daughter and three sons.
[2] Check-lists of the forest trees and shrubs of the British Empire.
Hora, Frederick Bayard, Greenway, Percy James.
Oxford: Imperial Forestry Institute A field key to four hundred common mushrooms and toadstools.
Hora, Frederick Bayard, Barber, K. I., Simmonds, A. M. (1950).
The spring foray, Juniper Hall, 29 May to 1 June 1953.
London, home counties, and provincial day forays, September and October, 1953.
The spring foray, Lake District, 27 May to 1 June 1954.
The spring foray, Pendley Manor, Tring, Herts, 11–15 May 1955.