Robert Bentley (March 25, 1821 – December 24, 1893) was an English botanist. Events 1199 - Richard I is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting France which leads to his death on April 6. Year 1821 ( MDCCCXXI) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common year Events 563 - The Byzantine church Hagia Sophia in Constantinople is dedicated for the second time after being destroyed by Earthquakes Year 1893 ( MDCCCXCIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located Botany, plant science(s, phytology, or plant biology is a branch of Biology and is the scientific study of plant Life He is perhaps best remembered today for the four-volume Medicinal Plants, published in 1880 with Henry Trimen and containing over three hundred hand-colored plates by botanist David Blair.
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Life
Robert Bentley was born in Hitchin, Hertfordshire in 1821. While apprenticed to a pharmacist in Tunbridge Wells, he developed an interest in botany. He subsequently studied medicine at King's College London, and became a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1847 and a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1849. King's College London is a British Higher education institution and co-founding constituent college of the federal University of London.
Bentley served as botany lecturer at the Medical School of the London Hospital, and in 1859 became Professor of Botany at King's College London. King's College London is a British Higher education institution and co-founding constituent college of the federal University of London.
In 1874, Bentley was elected a Fellow of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, and he served as joint editor of the British Pharmacopeia of 1885.
He died in 1893 and was buried at Kensal Green Cemetery. Kensal Green Cemetery is a burial ground located in Kensal Green, London, England.
Books by Bentley
- A Manual of Botany: including the structure, functions, classification, properties, and uses of plants, etc. (1861), at Google Books
- Characters, Properties, and Uses of Eucalyptus (1874)
- Botany (1875, London)
- Medicinal Plants: being descriptions with original figures of the principal plants employed in medicine and an account of the characters, properties, and uses of their parts and products of medicinal value - written with Henry Trimen (1880, London, Churchill)
- The Student’s Guide to Structural, Morphological, and Physiological Botany (1883, London)
- A Text-book of Organic Materia Medica, comprising a description of the vegetable and animal drugs of the British Pharmacopoeia, with other non-official medicines, etc. Lesser galangal or Alpinia officinarum (synonym Languas officinarum) is a plant in the ginger family. (1887)
References
- ^ Brummitt, R. K. ; C. E. Powell (1992). Authors of Plant Names. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. The Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, usually referred to simply as Kew Gardens, are extensive Gardens and botanical glasshouses between Richmond and ISBN 1-84246-085-4.
Further reading
- The Annual Register (1894, Longmans, Green, and Company, London, p. 212)
- Obituary with biographical details in the Dictionary of National Biography (1901, Macmillan, New York, pages 181-182)
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