Sir James Edward Smith

(1759-1828)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Smith, James Edward, Sir, 1759-1828 NRA: Smith, Sir James Edward (1759-1828) Knight Botanist DNB: Smith, Sir James Edward (1759–1828), botanist LBT ID: JaSmith1828 VIAF ID: 98223258 LOC ID: n82249860	B/BAP: 1759-12-02 DIED: 1828-03-17
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After studying medicine at University of Edinburgh he pursued a career as a botanist and was a founder of the Linnean Society (1788). He published Flora Britannica (1800-04).
REFERENCES TO Sir James Edward Smith: William Roscoe to Jane Roscoe, [1804] in The Life of William Roscoe 2 vols (London: T. Cadell, 1833) Found 1: ¶ 1 Sir James Edward Smith to William Roscoe, [3 October 1814] in The Life of William Roscoe 2 vols (London: T. Cadell, 1833) Found 1: ¶ 1 Henry Roscoe, The Life of William Roscoe 2 vols (London: T. Cadell, 1833) Chapter VII. 1799-1805 Found 6: ¶ 21 ¶ 22 ¶ 23 ¶ 25 ¶ 26 ¶ 50 Chapter IX. 1806-1807 Found 2: ¶ 41 ¶ 42 Chapter XI. 1809-1810 Found 1: ¶ 8 Chapter XIII. 1812-1815 Found 9: ¶ 4 ¶ 8 ¶ 31 ¶ 35 ¶ 36 ¶ 37 ¶ 44 ¶ 48 ¶ 49 Chapter XIV. 1816 Found 2: ¶ 12 ¶ 48 Chapter XV. 1817-1818 Found 1: ¶ 2 Chapter XVII. 1820-1823 Found 2: ¶ 3 ¶ 39 Chapter XVIII. 1824 Found 4: ¶ 25 ¶ 27 ¶ 28 ¶ n1 Chapter XIX. 1825-1827 Found 1: ¶ 34 Chapter XX. 1827-1831 Found 6: ¶ 1 ¶ 9 ¶ 29 ¶ 30 ¶ 31 ¶ 32 Chapter XXI. Found 5: ¶ 36 ¶ 43 ¶ 45 ¶ 56 ¶ n1