John George Children

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John George Children (1826)

John George Children (born May 18, 1777 in Tonbridge , Kent, † January 1, 1852 in Halstead , Kent) was a British chemist , mineralogist and zoologist . The botanist Anna Atkins was his daughter.

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John George Children was the only child of the banker George Children (1742-1818) and his wife Susanna Marshall Jordan. He studied at the Eton School and from 1794 studied at Queens' College in Cambridge , but dropped out of his studies in 1798 due to the death of his wife. He toured Europe and the United States, studying mineralogy, chemistry, and galvanism . With the financial support of his father, he set up a laboratory in Ferox Hall , where he experimented with Humphry Davy and William Hyde Wollaston .

In 1807 Children became a member of the Royal Society and the Linnaeus Society . In 1813 he constructed the largest galvanic battery to date . In 1815 Children traveled to Spain and visited the mercury mines in Almadén .

After his father went bankrupt in 1816, Children was forced to seek employment. In the same year he got a job as a librarian in the "Department of Antiquities" of the British Museum . As the successor to William Elford Leach , he was the keeper of the museum's zoological collection from 1823 to 1840 . He helped publish the Zoological Journal , the first edition of which appeared in 1825.

In 1812 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh . From 1826 to 1827 and from 1830 to 1837 he was Secretary of the Royal Society and from 1837 to 1839 also its Vice President. In 1833 he was founding president of the Royal Entomological Society of London and from 1838 to 1844 vice-president of the Botanical Society of London . In 1839, Children was introduced to Children by Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville as member number 169 of the Société cuviérienne .

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John George Children published several articles in the Philosophical Transactions .

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literature

  • Ray Desmond: Dictionary of British and Irish Botanists and Horticulturists. Including Plant Collectors, Flower Painters, and Garden Designers. Taylor & Francis et al., London 1994, ISBN 0-85066-843-3 , p. 145.
  • Biography. In: Charles Knight: The English cyclopaedia. A new dictionary of universal knowledge Biography. 7 volumes. Bradbury, Agnew & Co, London 1856-1872.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry ( Memento of the original from March 17, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at the National Portrait Gallery. (accessed on November 21, 2008) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.npg.org.uk
  2. ^ Fellows Directory. Biographical Index: Former RSE Fellows 1783–2002. Royal Society of Edinburgh, accessed October 17, 2019 .
  3. ^ Société Cuvierienne: Nouveaux membres admis dans la Société curvienne . In: Revue Zoologique par La Société Cuvierienne . tape 2 , 1839, p. 256 ( online ).

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SURNAME Children, John George
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British chemist, mineralogist and zoologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1777
PLACE OF BIRTH Tonbridge , Kent
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 1852
Place of death Halstead , Kent