William Roscoe

Martin Archer Shee: William Roscoe

William Roscoe (born March 8, 1753 in Liverpool , † June 30, 1831 ) was an English lawyer , biologist and historian . Its author abbreviation in biology is “ Rosc. "

Life

Roscoe worked in Liverpool as a lawyer ( Attorney ) and was a strict opponent of the slave trade .

Among other things, he published the first description of the grains of paradise ( Aframomum melegueta ) under the Basionym Amomum melegueta in 1828.

His work The Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth , published in 1805, was placed on the Roman index by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in 1825, together with the translation published in Milan in 1816/17 .

The English economist and philosopher William Stanley Jevons was his grandson.

Honors

The plant genus Roscoea Sm. From the ginger family (Zingiberaceae) is named after him.

Works

Memorial to William Roscoe

The Life and Pontificate of Leo X. , 1805.
The Life of Lorenzo de Medici, called the Magnificent , 1796.

Web links

Commons : William Roscoe - Collection of Images

http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/roscoe-william-1753-1831

Individual evidence

↑ William Roscoe: Monandrian plants of the order Scitamineae: chiefly drawn from living specimens in the botanic garden at Liverpool, arranged according to the system of Linnaeus with descriptions and observations. George Smith, Liverpool 1828, t. 98 ( first description and historical illustration at biodiversity.org ).
↑ Roscoe, William. In: Jesús Martínez de Bujanda , Marcella Richter: Index des livres interdits: Index librorum prohibitorum 1600–1966. Médiaspaul, Montréal 2002, ISBN 2-89420-522-8 , pp. 783-784 (French, digitized ).
↑ 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 .

personal data
SURNAME	Roscoe, William
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	English lawyer, biologist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH	March 8, 1753
PLACE OF BIRTH	Liverpool
DATE OF DEATH	June 30, 1831

[1] William Roscoe: Monandrian plants of the order Scitamineae: chiefly drawn from living specimens in the botanic garden at Liverpool, arranged according to the system of Linnaeus with descriptions and observations. George Smith, Liverpool 1828, t. 98 ( first description and historical illustration at biodiversity.org ).

[2] Roscoe, William. In: Jesús Martínez de Bujanda , Marcella Richter: Index des livres interdits: Index librorum prohibitorum 1600–1966. Médiaspaul, Montréal 2002, ISBN 2-89420-522-8 , pp. 783-784 (French, digitized ).

[Burkhardt_2018-3] 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 .