Grew, Nehemiah (bap. 1641, d. 1712), botanist and physician, was the son of Obadiah Grew (bap. 1607, d. 1689) and his wife, Ellen or Helen, née Vicars (d. 1687). By her first marriage Ellen Grew had two sons, Henry Sampson, ejected minister and historian of dissent, and ...
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Grew, Nehemiah (bap. 1641, d. 1712), botanist and physician
Michael Hunter
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Hull, John (1761–1843), physician and botanist
G. S. Boulger
revised by Michael Bevan
Hull, John (1761–1843), physician and botanist, was born at Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire, on 30 September 1761, the eldest of three sons of John Hull, surgeon, and his wife Grace, who was the widow of Roger Freckleton, vicar of Bispham. He was educated at the grammar at ...
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Pulteney, Richard (1730–1801), botanist and physician
I. D. Hughes
Pulteney, Richard (1730–1801), botanist and physician, was born on 17 February 1730 at Loughborough, Leicestershire, the sole survivor of the eleven children of Samuel Pulteney (1674–1754), a prosperous tailor, and Mary Tomlinson (1692–1759), a native of the nearby village of Hathern. The family belonged to a sect known as ...
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Withering, William (1741–1799), physician and botanist
Jeffrey K. Aronson
Withering, William (1741–1799), physician and botanist, was born on 17 March 1741 (his monument says 28 March), in Wellington, Shropshire, the second child of Edmund Witherings (1713–1769), and his wife, Sarah Hector (1708–1789), and was baptized on 13 April 1742. Edmund was an apothecary, and there were several medical practitioners in ...
