Beatrix Potter

Beatrix Potter

female, deceased (1943)
Writer-illustrator, writer, Conservation movement, children's books, botany, British children's writer…Botanist
(Helen) Beatrix Potter was an English author and illustrator, botanist, and conservationist, best known for her children's books, which featured...

John Hill

male, deceased (1775)
From Peterborough, The Vegetable System, London Advertiser, British Magazine, Literary Gazette, Henry Woodward…Botanist
John Hill (c. 1716 - November 21, 1775), called from his Swedish honours, "Sir" John Hill, English author, son of the Rev. Theophilus Hill, is said...
Hugh Falconer

Hugh Falconer

male, deceased (1865)
bengal, Meerut, Asiatic Society of Bengal, Alumni of the University of Aberdeen, paleoanthropologist, Alumni of the University of Edinburgh…Botanist
Hugh Falconer MD, FRS (February 29 1808 - January 31 1865), was a distinguished Scottish geologist, botanist, palaeontologist and...
William Curtis

William Curtis

male, deceased (1799)
British, this list, Botanist, lambeth, curtis, brompton
William Curtis (January 11, 1746 - July 7, 1799) was an English botanist who was born at Alton, Hampshire. Curtis was demonstrator of plants and...
George Bentham

George Bentham

male, deceased (1884)
Mycologist, From Portsmouth, Fellow of the Zoological Society of London, Botany in Australia, British, Environment of Hong Kong…Botanist
George Bentham CMG, FRS (September 22, 1800-September 10, 1884) was an English botanist, characterized by Duane Isely as "the premier systematic...
Archibald Menzies

Archibald Menzies

male, deceased (1842)
Weem, Sailor, yogh, from Perth and Kinross, Alumni of the University of Edinburgh, explorer…Botanist
Archibald Menzies (15 March 1754 - 15 February 1842) was a Scottish surgeon and naturalist. Menzies was born at Easter Stix (or Styx) in the parish...
John Gerard

John Gerard

male, deceased (1612)
Willaston, Crewe and Nantwich, Matthiolus, tudor, garden, surgeon, linnaeus…Pre-Linnaean botanist, Botanist
John Gerard (Nantwich, 1545 - February, 1611/12 in London) was an English botanist famous for his herbal garden. After being educated in Willaston...
Wade Davis

Wade Davis

male, 56 years old
zombification, West Vancouver, immigrant to the United States, Canadian expatriate academic in the United States, Shadows in the Sun, Passage of Darkness…Botanist
Edmund Wade Davis (born December 14 1953 in West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) is a noted anthropologist and ethnobotanist whose work has...
Joseph Pitton de Tournefort

Joseph Pitton de Tournefort

male, deceased (1708)
from Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, pyrenees, Mycologist, French, Jesuit, Pre-Linnaean botanist…Botanist
Joseph Pitton de Tournefort was a French botanist, notable as the first to make a clear definition of the concept of genus for plants.
James Edward Smith

James Edward Smith

male, deceased (1828)
The English Flora, From norwich, British, Royal Society, Mycologist, swedish…Botanist
Sir James Edward Smith (December 2, 1759 - March 17, 1828) was an English botanist and founder of the Linnean Society. Smith was born in Norwich in...