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JOHN SIBTHORP (1758-1796)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 19 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN See also:SIBTHORP (1758-1796)  , See also:English botanist, was See also:born at See also:Oxford on the 28th of See also:October 1758, and was the youngest son of Dr See also:Humphrey See also:Sibthorp (1713-1797), who from 1747 to 1784 was Sherardian See also:professor of See also:botany at Oxford . He graduated at Oxford in 1777, and then studied. See also:medicine at See also:Edinburgh and See also:Montpellier . In 1784 he succeeded his See also:father in the Sherardian See also:chair . Leaving his professional duties to a See also:deputy he See also:left See also:England for See also:Gottingen and See also:Vienna, in preparation for a botanical tour in See also:Greece (1786) . Returning to England at the end of the following See also:year he took See also:part in the See also:foundation of the Linnaean Society in 1788, and set to See also:work on a See also:flora of See also:Oxfordshire, which was published in 1794 as Flora Oxoniensis . He made a second See also:journey to Greece, but See also:developed See also:consumption on the way See also:home and died at See also:Bath on the 8th of See also:February 1796 . By his will he bequeathed his books on natural See also:history and See also:agriculture to Oxford university, where also he founded the Sibthorpian professorship of rural See also:economy, attaching it to the chair of botany . He directed that the endowment should first be applied to the publication of his Flora Graeca and Florae Graecae Prodromus, for which, however, he had done little beyond See also:collecting some three thousand See also:species and providing the plates . The task of preparing the See also:works was undertaken by See also:Sir J . E . See also:Smith, who issued the two volumes of the Prodromus in 18o6 and 1813, and six volumes of the Flora Graeca between 18o6 and 1828 . The seventh appeared in 1830, after Smith's See also:death, and the remaining three were produced by See also:John See also:Lindley between 1833 and 184o .

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family, See also:RALPH See also:WALDO SIBTHORP (1792–1879), a See also:grandson of Dr Humphrey Sibthorp, was a well-known English divine . He was educated at Oxford and took See also:Anglican orders in 1815 . He became known as a prominent " evangelical " in See also:London, but in 1841 was received into the See also:Roman See also:Church . Two years later he returned to the Anglican Church, though he was not readmitted to the See also:ministry till 1857 . Finally he re-entered the Roman communion in 1865, but on his death in 1879 he was, by his own See also:request, buried according to the service of the English Church .

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