Charles Abbot | |
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| Born | March 24, 1761 |
| Died | September 8, 1817 |
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| Author abbrev. (botany) | C.Abbot |
Charles Abbot (24 March 1761 – 8 September 1817) was a British botanist and entomologist.
Life
editAbbot was educated at Winchester College and matriculated at New College, Oxford in 1779, with an M.A. degree in 1787.[3] He was elected fellow of the Linnean Society of London in 1793, and he received the degrees of B.D. and D.D. in 1802.
Abbot was vicar of Oakley Raynes and Goldington, in Bedfordshire. He was also Usher of Bedford School, 1787−1817,[4] and chaplain to the Marquess of Tweeddale. He died in Bedford in September 1817.
Works
editAbbot is noted for making, in 1798, the first capture in England of Papilio paniscus, the chequered skipper. His writings include the manuscript "Catalogus plantarum" (May 1795); a list of 956 plants of Bedfordshire;, and a later book on the same subject, Flora Bedfordiensis (November 1798). Other works include the 1807 volume of sermons entitled Parochial Divinity. He also wrote a Monody on the Death of Horatio, Lord Nelson, in 1805.
References
edit- ^ Smith, James Edward. "Flora Britannica, auctore Jacobo Edvardo Smith, M.D. Societatis Linnaeanae Praeside, Regiae Londinensis, Holm. Upsal. Taurin. Olyssip. Philadelph. - Physiogr. Lund. Berolin. Paris. Aliarumque Societatum Socio". British Library. Retrieved 13 October 2023 – via Gale Primary Sources.
- ^ Slatter, Enid (2004). "Abbot, Charles (1761–1817), botanist and entomologist.". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/2. Retrieved 13 October 2023. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
- ^ Slatter, Enid (2010) [First published 2004]. "Abbot, Charles". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/2. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ International Plant Names Index. C.Abbot.
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1885). "Abbot, Charles (d.1817)". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 1. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
