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In 1740 be returned to England, residing principally at Clielsea. 

 His skill in depicting botanical subjects brought him full occu- 

 pation both as an artist and as a teacher, and his beautifully 

 finislied drawings commanded high prices. Among his published 

 works the plates to Brown's ' History of" Jamaica ' and his own 

 ' History and Analysis of the Parts of Jessamine which flowered 

 in the curious Garden of R. Warner, at Woodford,' may be men- 

 tioned. In 1757 he was elected a Fellow of the Eoyal Society, 

 to which he communicated several botanical papers tiiat are 

 printed in the Philosophical Transactions. 



Among his pupils in London was the then Duchess of Port- 

 land, who made a large collection of his paintings at Bulstrode, 

 which were sold for large sums at her death in 1786*, when the 

 Portland Museum was broken up. 



Gr. D, Ehret married Susanna Kennett, of G-lidding, near 

 Hambledon, Sussex, and died at Chelsea on the 9th September, 

 1770, leaving one son, Greorge Philip Ehret, M.D. His widow 

 died at Watford, Herts, in October 1781t. 



Genealogy of the Grover and Ehret Families. 



George Ehret, 3^;^^ 



of Durlach, Bacleu. I 



George Bionysius Ehret, F.R.S., 



bom at Erfurt, 1708 ; 

 died at Chelsea, 9th Sept. 1770. 



Susanna Kennett, 



of Gliddiiig, near Hambledon, Sussex; 



died at Watford, Herts, 



Oct. 1781. 



An7ia Maria Ehret, 

 died an infant. 



George Philip Ehret, M.D., 



b. 24tb March. 1741 ; 



m. 16th Dec. 1767 ; 



d. at Watford, Herts, 



Oct. 1786. 



Elizabeth Day, 



of Micklefield Green, 



Rickniansworth . 



Sibylla Ehret, 

 b. at Watford, 11th May, 1769 ; 

 m. at Watford, 28th Nov., 1787 ; 

 d. at Hempstead, 1st June, 1853. 



■_ Harry Grover, 



of the Bury, Hemel Hempstead, Herts, and Boveney 

 Court, Burnhani, Bucks ; 

 died at Hempstead, ISth August, 1835. 



A family, including the donors of tlie letters of Linnanis, viz. : — 



Miss Sophia Grover, "| 



Miss Harriet Gi'over, \ of Holywell Hill, St. Albans, Herts ; 

 Miss Emily Grover, J 

 and Charles Ehret Grover, Esq., of Hemel Hempstead, Herts. 



* See Gent. Mag. 1781), vol. Ivi. pp. .")27, ^2S. 



1' Jlr. Carruthei's states that in the Natural History Museum at South 

 Kensington is an autograph autobiography of Ehret, as well as an independent 

 biography of him by Trew. Tliere are also some MSS. of Ehret in the same 

 Museum. 



