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British clergyman, botanist and entomologist (1761-1817)
Charles Abbot
Born (1761-03-24 ) March 24, 1761Died (1817-09-08 ) September 8, 1817Scientific career Fields
Author abbrev. (botany) C.Abbot
Charles Abbot (24 March 1761 – 8 September 1817) was a British
botanist and
entomologist .
Life
Abbot was educated at
Winchester College and matriculated at
New College, Oxford in 1779, with an M.A. degree in 1787.
[3] He was elected fellow of the
Linnean Society of London in 1793, and he received the degrees of
B.D. and
D.D. in 1802.
Abbot was vicar of Oakley Raynes and
Goldington , in Bedfordshire. He was also Usher of
Bedford School , 1787−1817,
[4] and chaplain to the
Marquess of Tweeddale . He died in
Bedford in September 1817.
Works
Abbot is noted for making, in 1798, the first capture in
England of Papilio paniscus , the
chequered skipper . His writings include the manuscript "Catalogus plantarum" (May 1795); a list of 956 plants of
Bedfordshire ;, and a later book on the same subject, Flora Bedfordiensis (November 1798). Other works include the 1807 volume of sermons entitled Parochial Divinity . He also wrote a Monody on the Death of Horatio, Lord Nelson , in 1805.
References
^ Smith, James Edward.
"Flora Britannica, auctore Jacobo Edvardo Smith, M.D. Societatis Linnaeanae Praeside, Regiae Londinensis, Holm. Upsal. Taurin. Olyssip. Philadelph. - Physiogr. Lund. Berolin. Paris. Aliarumque Societatum Socio" . Gale Primary Sources . British Library. Retrieved 13 October 2023 .
^ Slatter, Enid.
"Abbot, Charles (1761–1817), botanist and entomologist" . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . Oxford University Press. Retrieved 13 October 2023 .
^
Foster, Joseph (1888–1892).
"Abbott, Charles (1)" .
Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886 . Oxford: Parker and Co – via
Wikisource .
^ Slatter, Enid (2010) [First published 2004]. "Abbot, Charles".
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press.
doi :
10.1093/ref:odnb/2 . (Subscription or
UK public library membership required.)
^
International Plant Names Index .
C.Abbot .
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