Job Edward Lousley (18 September 1907 – 6 January 1976) was an English banker and a renowned amateur botanist, who authored many publications, including Wild Flowers of Chalk and Limestone (Number 16) in the New Naturalist series and the first Flora of the Isles of Scilly, published in 1971.
[citation needed] Lousley left school in April 1924 and worked for ten years for Barclays Bank in South London before moving to the City and working in the Stock Exchange, various city branches and the Trustee Department of Head Office.
[1] Lousley realised at an early age the need to specialise and chose docks (Rumex), a neglected group, which was to gain him an international reputation.
[4] During the Second World War Lousley worked in London which gave him the chance to visit bombed sites and he went on to list species in the Square Mile.
It led, in collaboration with Richard Fitter, to the Natural History of the City published in 1953 which listed 269 wild flowers, grasses and ferns.