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John Sibthorp (
October 28,
1758 –
February 8,
1796) was an
English botanist. He was born in
Oxford, the youngest son of Dr Humphrey Sibthorp (
1713–
1797), who from
1747 to
1784 was Sherardian professor of botany at the
University of Oxford.
He graduated from Oxford in
1777, and then studied
medicine at the Universities of
Edinburgh and
Montpellier. In
1784 he succeeded his father to the Sherardian chair. Leaving his professional duties to a deputy, he left England for
Göttingen and
Vienna, in preparation for a botanical tour of
Greece (1786).
Returning to England at the end of the following year, he took part in the foundation of the
Linnean Society in
1788, and set to work on a
Flora of
Oxfordshire, which was published in
1794 as
Flora Oxoniensis. He made a second journey to Greece, but developed
consumption on the way home and died in
Bath on
February 8,
1796.
His will bequeathed his books on
natural history and
agriculture to the University of Oxford, and also founded
Oxford's Sibthorpian professorship
of rural economy (held by
Chris J. Leaver as of 2005), 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'd 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
1806 and
1813, and six volumes of the
Flora Graeca between 1806 and
1828. The seventh appeared in
1830, after Smith's death, and the remaining three were produced by
John Lindley between
1833 and
1840.
The standard
botanical author abbreviation Sibth. is applied to
species he described.
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