William Moyle Rogers, am English clergyman and botanical collector, was the son of Arundel Rogers and his wife Julia Emma Moyle, and the father of Archdeacon Frederick A. Rogers*. He came to the Cape Colony in 1860, was ordained in Cape Town and appointed vice-principal of Bishop's College. He was stationed at Riversdale from January to June 1860 and then at George until September 1862. He collected plants at both these places, and at Caledon in October 1862, but then returned to England with health problems. Most of his Cape plants were later presented to the British Museum (Natural History), but he also presented a parcel of plants from various parts of the Cape Colony to the herbarium of the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew.
In 1869 Rogers married Alicia Rebecca Chadwick. After serving as curate or vicar in various places he retired to Bornmouth in 1885 as a result of poor health. He then started started writing articles on the floras of various regions of England, including parts of Devon, Dorset, and the Isle of Wight. These were published in the Journal of Botany from 1877 onward. From the late 1880's he began to specialise in the genus Rubus (brambles), describing many new species from various regions in the same journal. His most important botanical work was his Handbook of British Rubi (London, 1900, 111 pp), which earned him a reputation for creating many additional species. He was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1881. Several species were named after him, including Gladiolus rogersii, Ornithogalum rogersii, Scilla rogersii, and Moraea rogersii.
