See also:

• JOHN
• JOHN (1167–1216)
• JOHN (1290-c. 1320)
• JOHN (1296-1346)
• JOHN (1371–1419)
• JOHN (1468-1532)
• JOHN (1801-1873)
• JOHN (Heb. llni')
• JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540)
• JOHN, 4TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (c. 1695-1762)
• JOHN, DON (1545-1578)
• JOHN, DON (1629–1679)
• JOHN, GOSPEL OF ST
• JOHN, or HAYS (1513–1571)
• JOHN, THE APOSTLE
• JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF

JOHN See also:

• MARTYN, HENRY (r781-1812)
• JOHN MARTYN (1699-1768)

MARTYN (1699-1768)  , See also:

• ENGLISH

English botanist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in See also:

• LONDON

London on the 12th of See also:

• SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September 1699 . Originally intended for a business career, he abandoned it in favour of medical and botanical studies . He was one of the founders (with J . J . See also:

• DILLEN [DILLENIUS], JOHANN JAKOB (1684-1747)

Dillen and others) and the secretary of a botanical society which met for a few years in the See also:

• RAINBOW

Rainbow See also:

• COFFEE (Fr: cafe, Ger. Kaffee)

Coffee-See also:

• HOUSE
• HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

house, Watling See also:

• STREET
• STREET, GEORGE EDMUND (1824-1881)

Street; he also started the See also:

• GRUB

Grub Street See also:

• JOURNAL
• JOURNAL (through Fr. from late Lat. diurnalis, daily)

Journal, a weekly satirical See also:

• REVIEW (Fr. revue, from revoir, to see again, Lat. re and videre)

review, which lasted from 1730 to 1737 . In 1732 he was appointed See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of See also:

• BOTANY (from Gr. l3or6v17, plant; ,66vicety, to graze)

botany in See also:

• CAMBRIDGE
• CAMBRIDGE, EARLS AND DUKES OF
• CAMBRIDGE, RICHARD OWEN (1717-1802)

Cambridge University, but, finding little encouragement and hampered by lack of appliances, he soon discontinued lecturing . He retained his professorship, however, till 1762, when he resigned in favour of his son See also:

• THOMAS
• THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
• THOMAS (d. 110o)
• THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
• THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
• THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
• THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
• THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
• THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
• THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
• THOMAS, ST
• THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
• THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)

Thomas (1735-1825), author of See also:

• FLORA

Flora rustica (1792-1794) . Although he had not taken a medical degree, he See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long practised as a physician at See also:

• CHELSEA

Chelsea, where he died on the 29th of See also:

• JANUARY

January 1768 . His reputation chiefly rests upon his Historia plantarum rariorum (1728-1737), and his See also:

• TRANSLATION

translation, with valuable agricultural _and botanical notes, of the Eclogues (1749) and Georgics (1741) of See also:

• VIRGIL (PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARC)
• VIRGIL, POLYDORE (c. 1470-1555)

Virgil . On resigning the botanical See also:

• CHAIR (in. Mid. Eng. chcere, through O. Fr. chaire or chaiere, from Lat. cathedra, later caledra, Gr. xaOi3pa, seat, cf. "cathedral"; the modern Fr. form chaise, a chair, has been adopted in English with a particular meaning as a form of carriage; chaire

chair at Cambridge he presented the university with a number of his botanical specimens and books . See memoir by Thomas See also:

• MARTYN, HENRY (r781-1812)
• MARTYN, JOHN (1699-1768)

Martyn in See also:

• MEMOIRS

Memoirs of See also:

• JOHN
• JOHN (1167–1216)
• JOHN (1290-c. 1320)
• JOHN (1296-1346)
• JOHN (1371–1419)
• JOHN (1468-1532)
• JOHN (1801-1873)
• JOHN (Heb. llni')
• JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540)
• JOHN, 4TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (c. 1695-1762)
• JOHN, DON (1545-1578)
• JOHN, DON (1629–1679)
• JOHN, GOSPEL OF ST
• JOHN, or HAYS (1513–1571)
• JOHN, THE APOSTLE
• JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF

John Martyn and Thomas Martyn, by G . C .

Gorham (183o) .