The Reverend John Lightfoot (1735-1788) was an English conchologist and botanist. Year 1735 ( MDCCXXXV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Year 1788 ( MDCCLXXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland Conchology is the scientific, semi-scientific or Amateur study of mollusk shells (in the UK spelled mollusc shells Botany, plant science(s, phytology, or plant biology is a branch of Biology and is the scientific study of plant Life
Lightfoot was the chaplain and librarian of Margaret Bentinck, Duchess of Portland. Margaret Cavendish Bentinck Duchess of Portland ( Welbeck Abbey, 11 February 1715 &ndash 17 July 1785, Bulstrode Park He was the author of Flora Scotica (2 vols, 1777) and An Account of Some Minute British Shells, Either not Duly Observed, or Totally Unnoticed by Authors (1786).
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