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Botanists from United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

43 published records, arranged alphabetically. Each entry is published only where a named source supports it.

Anne PrattIllustrator · IllustrationAnne Pratt (5 December 1806 – 27 July 1893) was a botanical and ornithological illustrator and author from Strood, Kent.
Arthur Harry ChurchPhotographer · PhotographyArthur Harry Church FRS (28 March 1865 – 24 April 1937) was a British botanist and botanical illustrator. He was also a pioneer amateur photographer.
Charles DaubenyPhotographer · PhotographyIllustration — Charles Daubeny in 1856–1860
Charlotte Turner SmithAuthor · BooksCharlotte Turner Smith (born 4 May 1749; died 28 October 1806) was the recorded working language is English. The field of work recorded is poetry.
Christopher DresserDesigner · Modern designChristopher Dresser (4 July 1834 – 24 November 1904) was a British designer and design theorist, now widely known as one of the first and most important independent designers.
Dorothea PertzIllustrator · IllustrationDorothea Frances Matilda Pertz FLS (14 March 1859 – 6 March 1939) was a British botanist. She co-authored five papers with Francis Darwin, Charles Darwin's son.
Edward ForbesAuthor · BooksEdward Forbes FRS, FGS (12 February 1815 – 18 November 1854)[1] was a Manx naturalist.
Elizabeth TwiningArtist · PaintingsElizabeth Twining (1805–1889) was an English painter, author, and botanical illustrator.
Erasmus DarwinAuthor · BooksErasmus Robert Darwin (12 December 173118 April 1802) was an English physician. One of the key thinkers of the Midlands Enlightenment, he was also a natural philosopher, physiologist,…
Francis Rawdon ChesneyAuthor · BooksFrancis Rawdon Chesney (16 March 1789 – 30 January 1872) was a British general and explorer.
Gertrude JekyllDesigner · DesignGertrude Jekyll (29 November 1843 – 8 December 1932) was a British horticulturist, garden designer, craftswoman, photographer, writer and artist.
Harry JohnstonPhotographer · PhotographySir Harry Hamilton Johnston GCMG (12 June 1858 – 31 July 1927) was a British explorer, botanist, artist, colonial administrator, and linguist who travelled widely across Africa to speak…
Henry SaltIllustrator · IllustrationIllustration — Portrait of Henry Salt by John James Halls (c.
Herbert SpencerAuthor · BooksHerbert Spencer (27 April 1820 – 8 December 1903) was an English polymath active as a philosopher, psychologist, biologist, sociologist, and anthropologist.
Hugh ClappertonAuthor · BooksBain Hugh Clapperton (18 May 1788 – 13 April 1827) was a British naval officer and explorer of West and Central Africa.
James BoltonIllustrator · IllustrationJames Bolton (1735 – 7 January 1799) was an English naturalist, botanist, mycologist, and illustrator.
Jean-Baptiste Lislet GeoffroyAuthor · Maps and atlasesJean-Baptiste Lislet Geoffroy (born Jean-Baptiste Lislet; also known as Jean-Baptiste Lislet-Geoffroy; 23 August 1755 – 8 February 1836) was a French astronomer, botanist and cartographer.
John AbbotIllustrator · IllustrationJohn Abbot (1751c. 1840) was an American naturalist and artist.
John AikinAuthor · BooksJohn Aikin (15 January 1747 – 7 December 1822) was an English medical doctor and surgeon. Later in life he devoted himself wholly to biography and writing in periodicals.
John BarrowAuthor · BooksSir John Barrow, 1st Baronet (19 June 1764 – 23 November 1848) was an English geographer, linguist, writer and civil servant.
John RossArtist · PaintingsRear-Admiral Sir John Ross (24 June 1777 – 30 August 1856) was a British naval officer and explorer.
Joseph PaxtonIllustrator · IllustrationSir Joseph Paxton (3 August 1803 – 8 June 1865) was an English gardener, architect, engineer and Liberal Member of Parliament.
Mary LawranceEngraver · PrintsMary Lawrance Kearse (21 May 1781 – 27 March 1845) was a British botanical illustrator who specialized in flowers. She also taught botanical illustration.
Prideaux John SelbyIllustrator · IllustrationPrideaux John Selby FRSE FLS (23 July 1788 – 27 March 1867) was an English ornithologist, botanist and natural history artist.
Robert Ker PorterArtist · PaintingsIllustration — Self-portrait of Porter
Robert Lloyd PraegerAuthor · BooksIllustration — Robert Lloyd Praeger by Sarah Cecilia Harrison, now in National Museums Northern Ireland
Roger FryArtist · PaintingsRoger Eliot Fry (14 December 1866 – 9 September 1934) was an English painter and critic, and a member of the Bloomsbury Group.
Sarah Sophia BanksPerson · Music memorabiliaSarah Sophia Banks (28 October 1744 – 27 September 1818) was an English antiquarian collector and the sister and collaborator of botanist Joseph Banks.
William H. HarveyIllustrator · IllustrationWilliam Henry Harvey, FRS FLS (5 February 1811 – 15 May 1866) was an Irish botanist and phycologist who specialised in algae.
William Jackson HookerIllustrator · IllustrationWilliam Jackson Hooker (6 July 178512 August 1865) was an English botanist and botanical illustrator, who became the first director of Kew when in 1841 it was recommended to be placed under…
William James LintonEngraver · PrintsIllustration — William James Linton.
William John BurchellArtist · PaintingsWilliam John Burchell (23 July 1781 – 23 March 1863) was an English explorer, naturalist, traveller, artist, and author.
William MacGillivrayAuthor · BooksWilliam MacGillivray FRSE (25 January 1796 – 4 September 1852) was a Scottish naturalist and ornithologist.
William SwainsonIllustrator · IllustrationWilliam Swainson FLS, FRS (8 October 1789 – 6 December 1855), was an English ornithologist, malacologist, conchologist, entomologist and artist.
William WoollsAuthor · BooksIllustration — Studio Portrait of Reverend William Woolls, c. 1880, by J Herbert Newman

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