Charles Abbot (botanist)
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Charles Abbot (March 24, 1761 – September 8, 1817) was a British botanist and entomologist.
Educated at Winchester College and matriculated at New College, Oxford with an M.A. degree in 1788, he was in 1793 elected fellow of the Linnean Society of London. he received the degrees of B.D. and D.D. in 1802.
He was vicar of Oakley Raynes and Goldington, Bedfordshire, and chaplain to the Marquis of Tweeddale.
His writings include the manuscript 'Catalogus plantarum' (May 1795); a list of 956 plants of Bedfordshire, and a later book on the same subject, called Flora Bedfordiensis (November 1798). He is noted for making, in 1798, the first capture in England of Papilio paniscus, the Chequered Skipper. Other works include the 1807 volume of sermons entitled Parochial Divinity. He also wrote a Monody on the Death of Horatio, Lord Nelson, in 1805.
Abbott died in Bedford in October 1817.
[edit] References
- Slatter, Enid, "Abbot, Charles", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, (Oxford, 2004)
- This article incorporates text from the Dictionary of National Biography (1885–1900), a publication now in the public domain.
