Charles Sutton

Charles Sutton , (born March 6, 1756 in Norwich , † May 28, 1846 in Tombland, Norwich) was a British clergyman and botanist. Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " Sutton ".

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Sutton received his bachelor's degree from Cambridge in 1779 and his doctorate in theology (DD) in 1806. In 1791 he became a member of the Linnean Society of London (ALS). Sutton was a protgé of the botanist John Pitchford (1737-1803).

Sutton was an expert on summer sausages and published a monograph on it in 1798 with the Linnean Society. He first described the Great Summer Arum ( Orobanche elatior ).

Honors

The genus Suttonia A. Rich. from the primrose family (Primulaceae) is named after him.

Individual evidence

↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .

Web links

Entry in Ray Desmond, Dictionary Of British And Irish Botantists And Horticulturalists, Natural History Museum, Taylor and Francis 1994, p. 665, online
Author entry and list of described plant names for Charles Sutton at the IPNI

personal data
SURNAME	Sutton, Charles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British botanist
DATE OF BIRTH	March 6, 1756
PLACE OF BIRTH	Norwich
DATE OF DEATH	May 28, 1846
Place of death	Norwich

[Burkhardt_2018-1] Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .