James Ebenezer Bicheno
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| James Ebenezer Bicheno | |
| Born | January 25, 1785 Newbury, Berkshire, England |
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| Died | February 25, 1851 (aged 66) Hobart Town, Van Diemen's Land |
| Nationality | British |
| Fields | Botanist |
| Religious stance | Protestant |
James Ebenezer Bicheno (January 25, 1785 – February 25, 1851) was a British author and colonial official.
Bicheno was the son of the Rev. James Bicheno, minister of the Baptist Church in Newbury, Berkshire. He 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.
Bicheno was a large man, and it was said that he could fit three full bags of wheat in his trousers.[1] [2]
