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• Alternatieve naam: John Curtis
• Hij is geboren in het jaar 1697 in Alton, Hampshire, England.
• Alternatief: Hij is geboren rond 1690 in Alton, Hampshire, England.
• Alternatief: Hij is geboren in het jaar 1697 in Alton, Hampshire, England.
• Alternatief: Hij is geboren in het jaar 1700 in Alton, Hampshire, England.
• Woonachtig: England.Bron 4
• Hij is overleden op 31 maart 1765 in Alton, Hampshire, England, hij was toen 68 jaar oud.
• Alternatief: Hij is overleden in het jaar 1765 in Alton, Hampshire, England, hij was toen 68 jaar oud.
• Een kind van Thomas Curtis en Elizabeth Cowdray

Gezin van John Curtis (botanist and entomologist)

Hij is getrouwd met Mary Inwood.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 23 maart 1720 te Dorset and Hampshire Qm, England, hij was toen 23 jaar oud.Bron 4

Kind(eren):

1. John Curtis  1721-1797

Notities over John Curtis (botanist and entomologist)

Richard resident with wife ElizabethBlackfan in Crown Hill, Alton, had three children, one of which Mary married John Curtis, they had fivechildren with one son
He was an English botanist and entomologist,
He began as an apothecary, before turning his attention tobotany and other natural history. The publications he prepared effectivelyreached a wider audience than early works on the subject had intended. At theage of 25 he introduced Instructions for collecting and preserving insects;particularly moths and butterflies.[2]
Curtis was demonstrator of plants and Praefectus Horti at the Chelsea Physic Garden from 1771 to 1777.He established his own London Botanic Garden at Lambethin 1779, moving to Brompton in 1789. He publishedFlora Londinensis (6 volumes,1777–1798), a pioneering work in that it devoted itself to urban nature.Financial success was not found, but he went on the publish The Botanical Magazinein 1787, a work that would also feature hand colored plates by artists such as JamesSowerby, Sydenham Edwards, and William Kilburn.
Curtis was to gain wealth from the ventures into publishing, short sales onLondinensis were offset by over 3,000 copies of the magazine. Curtissaid they had each brought 'pudding or praise'.

He iscommemorated in a stained glass window at St. Mary's Church, Battersea,as many of his samples were collected from the churchyard there

The house pictured is in Lenten Street, Alton where he was born
‘Hisfather was a Quaker tanner and apprenticed William at 14 to his grandfather thelocal apothecary, where he was trained. At the age of 20, William left Altonfor the City of London where he begrudgingly worked for a time as anapothecary's assistant in Grace Church Street and then as a partner in anapothecary's practice. His love ofnatural history still beckoned and unable to reconcile his medical career withhis real interest, Curtis eventually sold out to his partner and bought a patchof land on which to grow plants. He continued enthusiastically to botanize theenvirons of London, to cultivate his garden at Bermondsey and to exchange hisideas with men of similar disposition. In 1772, at the age of 27, William,presumably short of money, was appointed Praefectus Horti and demonstrator tothe Society of Apothecaries at the Chelsea Physic Garden which had becomeinternationally renowned. William’s literary output was such that it wasnecessary for him to become one of the first users of short hand. He soonpublished a book on insects. His increasing fieldwork eventually resulted inthe publication of his Catalogue of Plants growing Wild in the Environs ofLondon………………………………………………….

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