Established: 1621 (By the Earl of Danby). 
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OxForRD UNIVERSITY 
Department of Botany, 
Directors (Professors): 
Robert Morison (1669- 
) 
1683 
. Jacob Bobart, Jr. (1683- 
1719) 
Edward Sandys (1720- 
724 
Gilbert Trowe (1724-1734) 
John Jacob Dill (Dillen, 
Dillenius) (1734-1747) 
. Humphrey Sibthorp (1747- 
1784) 
John Sibthorp (1784-1795) 
George Williams (1796- 
1834) ; 
Charles Giles Bridle Dan- 
berry (1834-1867) 
Marmaduke Alexander 
Lawson (1868-1883) 
Isaac Bayley Balfour 
(1884-1888) 
Sidney Howard Vines 
(1888-1919) 
. Frederick Keeble (1920- 
1926) 
. Arthur George Tansley 
(1927-1937) 
. T. G. B. Osborn (1937) 
RD 
BoTaANiIc GARDEN 
Oxford University 
Area: 5 acres. 
Custodians: 
(John Tradescant, Jr., ap- 
pointed, but never took office 
on account of his death in 
1637 or 1638) 
Jacob Bobart, Sr. (1632-1679) 
Tilleman Bobart? 
G. D. Ehret (1750- ) 
James Benwell (Gardener) (?) 
J. Foreman (?-1812) 
William Baxter (1813-1851) 
William H. Baxter (1851-1887) 
W. G. Baker (1888- _) 
