Facts: - residence: great britain - known for: taxonomy botany - fields: botany - death date: 01 december 1925 - academic advisors: sir michael foster - author abbrev bot: dykes - awards: veitch of honor -lrb- 1925 -rrb- memorial medal -lrb- 1924 -rrb- , victoria medal - birth date: 04 november 1877 - name: william rickatson dykes - nationality: british - influenced: george mathew h.m lawrence , georgi rodionenko , and brian - death place: woking , surrey - birth place: bayswater , london - alma mater: wadham college , oxford Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of william rickatson dykes .
william rickatson dykes -lrb- 1877 -- 1925 -rrb- was an amateur botanist who became an expert in the field of iris breeding and wrote several influential books on the subject .he was also interested in tulips , amaryllis , and other plants .