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Blackie, Thomas. Sent to Switzerland in 1775, to collect, by 



Fothergill and Pitcairn. Loudon, Encycl. Gardening, 277. 



Blair, Patrick (d. 1728): b. Dundee, Scotland; d. Boston, 

 Lincoln ?, 1728. M.D. F.R.S. Practised at Dundee, London 

 and Boston. Out in the '15 ; but pardoned through Sloane. 

 'Botanick Essays,' 1720. ' Pharmaco-botauologia,' 1723-8. 

 Pult.ii. 134-140; Bees; Pritz. 28; Jacks. 523; Chalmers; Diet. 

 Nat. Biog. v. 163; Sloane MSS. 4038; Biog. Univ. Blaria, L. 



Blake, John Bradby (1745-1773) : b. Great Marlborough Street, 

 London, 4th November, 1745 ; d. C nton, China, 16th Novem- 

 ber, 1773. Supercargo to H.E.I.C. Sent many plants and 

 seeds to Europe. Pritz. 28 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. v. 170. 



Blandford, George, Marquis of, afterwards 4th Duke of Marl- 

 borough [See Spencer -Churchill, George] . 



Bligh, William (1753 or 1754-1817) : b. Tinten, Cornwall ?, 1753 

 or 1754 ; d. Bond Street, London, 7th December, 1817 ; bur. 

 Lambeth Churchyard. Admiral, 1811. F.B.S. 1801. Governor 

 of New South Wales, 1805. Diet. Nat. Biog. v. 219 ; Ann. 

 Bot. ii. 570. BUghia, Koenig. 



Blinkworth, Richard. Collected at Kumaon. Correspondent 



of Wallich. Blinkworthia, Choisy. 



Bloxam, Andrew (1801-1878): b. Rugby, Warwick, 22nd 



September, 1801 ; d. Great Harborough, Leicester, 2nd 

 February, 1878. Clerk. Rector of Twycross, Leicestershire, 

 and afterwards of Harborough. Visited S. America as naturalist 

 to the 'Blonde,' 1824-5 (Mag. Nat. Hist. 1831, 145). ' Botany 

 of Twycross," Phyt. • Botany of Charnwood Forest," w. Dr. 

 Churchill Babington, in Potter's History. Critical in Ihibi and 

 Fungi. Fungi and MSS. in Herb. Mus. Brit. Jacks. 523 ; 

 Journ. Bot. 1878, 96 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. v. 264 ; Gard. Chron. 1878, 

 i. 811. Water-colour by Turner of him and five brothers at funeral 

 of their uncle, Sir Thomas Lawrence, in National Gallery. 



Bobart, or Bobert, Jacob (1597, 1598, or 1599-1680): b. Bruns- 

 wick, 1597, 1598, or 1599; d. "in his garden-house," Oxford, 

 4th February, 1679 ; bur. St. Peter's-in-the-East, Oxford. Made 

 Superintendent, Oxford Botanic Garden, by Danby, 1682. 



'Catalogus Oxoniensis,' 1648, 2nd. ed., with Stephens 



and Browne, 1658. Pult. i. 312 ; Biog. Sketch by H. T. Bobart, 

 1B84; Diet. Nat. Biog. v. 285; Jacks. 415; Pritz. 30; Felton, 

 !08 ; Journ. Hort. 1876, 864, with portr. Wood, Fasti, ii 189. 

 Oil portr. by D. Loggan, 1675, at Linn. Soc. ; engr. by Burghers; 

 engr. at Kew. Bobartia, L. 9 , . 



*Obart, Jacob (1640 or 1641-1719) : b. Oxford, 2nd August, 

 16 41 ; d. Oxford, 28th December, 1719 ; bur. St. Peter's-in- 

 the-East, Oxford. Succeeded his father in 1679 as Super- 

 intendent of Bot. Gard., and in 1683, after Morison, Prof. Bot. 

 Oxford. Published Morison's ' Historia,' vol. m. 1699. 

 Herbarium in 12 vols, at the Bot. Garden, Oxford. Pult. i. 

 312. Biog. Sketch by H. T. Bobart, 1884. Grey's Hudibras. 

 gich. Corr. 10, 152. Nich. Ulustr. i. 342, 857, 361. Diet. 

 Nat. Biog. v. 286. Oil portr. at Oxford Bot. Gard. Engr. in 

 ' Oxford Almanack,' 1719. Bobartia, L. 

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