Robert Teesdale

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Castle Howard in Yorkshire. Here Teesdale worked as a senior gardener
The genus Teesdalia ( farm mustard ) was named after Robert Teesdale, illustration from Sturm 1796

Robert Teesdale (* 1740 ; † December 25, 1804 ) was an English gardener and botanist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is “ Teesd. ".

Life

Robert Teesdale was the chief gardener of Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle, at his baroque castle, Castle Howard in Yorkshire . Teesdale was one of the pioneers of botany in Yorkshire and a founding member of the Linnean Society of London . In 1792 he published a list of 197 rare plants of the district in which he lived: Plantae Eboracenses, or, A Catalog of the More Rare Plants which grow wild in the Neighborhood of Castle Howard District. (Transactions of the Linnean Society, Vol. 2, 1792). An addendum to this work appeared in Volume 5 of the same journal.

Honor taxon

Because of Teesdale's contribution to the study of the flora of Yorkshire, the British botanist Robert Brown baptized the plant genus farm mustard from the cruciferous family with the scientific name Teesdalia .

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SURNAME Teesdale, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English gardener and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH 1740
DATE OF DEATH December 25, 1804