James Ebenezer Bicheno
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| Born | 25 January 1785 Newbury, Berkshire, England |
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| Died | 25 February 1851 Hobart, Tasmania, Australia |
| Nationality | English |
| Field | Botanist |
| Religion | Protestant |
James Ebenezer Bicheno was appointed colonial secretary of Van Diemen's Land in September 1842. He was a keen amateur botanist and experimented with plants on his small farm on the banks of the New Town Rivulet. He had several papers on botany and natural history published in its Transactions and assisted Sir William Jardine in preparing the two volumes of Illustrations of Ornithology (Edinburgh, 1830). Bicheno experimented with plants on his small farm on the banks of the New Town Rivulet, Van Diemen's Land, lectured on botany to the Mechanics' Institute and had papers published in the Transactions of the Royal Society of Tasmania.
[edit] Commemoration
- Bicheno, a town on the east coast of Tasmania, Australia was named after him.
- Bicheno's Finch was named to commemorate him.
