SIBTHORP, JOHN (1758-1796)

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SIBTHORP, JOHN (1758-1796) , English botanist, was born at Oxford on the 28th of October 1758, and was the youngest son of Dr Humphrey

Sibthorp

SIBTHORP, JOHN (1758-1796)

(1713-1797), who from 1747 to 1784 was Sherardian professor of botany at Oxford. He graduated at Oxford in 1777, and then studied. medicine at Edinburgh and Montpellier. In 1784 he succeeded his father in the Sherardian chair. Leaving his professional duties to a deputy he left England for Gottingen and Vienna, in preparation for a botanical tour in

Greece

GREECE

(1786). Returning to England at the end of the following year he took part in the foundation of the Linnaean Society in 1788, and set to

work

WORK

on a flora of Oxfordshire, which was published in 1794 as Flora Oxoniensis. He made a second journey to

Greece

GREECE

, but developed consumption on the way

home

and died at Bath on the 8th of February 1796. By his will he bequeathed his books on natural history and agriculture to Oxford university, where also he founded the Sibthorpian professorship of rural

economy

ECONOMY

, attaching it to the chair of botany. He directed that the endowment should first be applied to the publication of his Flora Graeca and Florae Graecae Prodromus, for which, however, he had done little beyond collecting some three thousand species and providing the plates. The task of preparing the works was undertaken by Sir J. E.

Smith

, who issued the two volumes of the Prodromus in 18o6 and 1813, and six volumes of the Flora Graeca between 18o6 and 1828. The seventh appeared in 1830, after

Smith

's death, and the remaining three were produced by John Lindley between 1833 and 184o.
Another member of the family, RALPH WALDO

SIBTHORP

SIBTHORP, JOHN (1758-1796)

(17921879), a grandson of Dr Humphrey Sibthorp, was a well-known English divine. He was educated at Oxford and took Anglican orders in 1815. He became known as a prominent " evangelical " in London, but in 1841 was received into the Roman Church. Two years later he returned to the Anglican Church, though he was not readmitted to the ministry till 1857. Finally he re-entered the Roman communion in 1865, but on his death in 1879 he was, by his own request, buried according to the service of the English Church. His elder brother, COLONEL

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