biography
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| lived:
| (c.1508–68)
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| biography:
| Clergyman, physician, and naturalist, born in Morpeth, Northumberland, NE England, UK. A fellow of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, he became a Protestant, and to escape religious persecution in England travelled extensively abroad, studying medicine and botany in Italy. He became Dean of Wells (1550–3), left England during the reign of Mary I, but was restored to Wells in 1560. The author of the first original English works on plants, including Names of Herbes (1548) and A New Herball (1551–68), he named many plants, including goatsbeard and hawkweed. He is often called ‘the father of English botany’. |
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