Charles Abbot (botanist)

Charles Abbot (March 24, 1761 , † September 8, 1817 in Bedford ) was a British botanist and entomologist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is " C.Abbot ".

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Abbot first received his scientific training at Winchester College ; he graduated from New College in Oxford in 1788 with a master's degree . In 1793 he was an elected member of the Linnean Society of London . He received a bachelor's degree in theology in 1802 and a doctorate in theology later that year.

He was vicar in Oakley Raynes and Goldington and Bedfordshire . He was also chaplain to the Marquis of Tweeddale.

Among other things, he wrote the Catalogus plantarum (May 1795), in which he listed 956 plants from the Bedfordshire region and, a little later, a book with the name Flora Bedfordiensis on the same topic. This was published in November 1798. He is the first to be credited with the discovery of the yellow-headed thick-headed butterfly in England in 1798.

He also wrote other, more religiously oriented works, such as the volume Parochial Divinity in 1807 and a Monody on the Death of Horatio, Lord Nelson in 1805 , with which he also demonstrated his musical skills.

literature

• Enid Slatter: Abbot, Charles , Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford 2004.

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• This article uses text from the Dictionary of National Biography (1885–1900), a publication that is now common knowledge.

Web links

• Author entry for Charles Abbot at IPNI.