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Proc. Eoy. Soe. viii. 279 ; B. B. 2990 ; E. S. C. v. 672. 

 Engr. portr. in Bot. Dep. Brit. Mus. 



Sharrock, Rev. Robert (fl. 1635-85): d. 11 July, 1685. 

 B.C.L. Oxon, 1654; D.C.L., 1661. Eector of Great Hor- 

 wood, Bucks, 1665; of East Woodhay, 1685; of Bishop 

 Waltham, Hants, 1669 ; Archdeacon of Winchester, 1684. 

 ' History of Propagation of Vegetables,' 1660. 'History of 

 Plants,' 1694. Pritz. 296 ; Wood, AtL Ox. iv. 147 ; Foster, 

 Alumn. Oxon. 



Shaw, George (1751-1813) : b. Bierton, Bucks, 10 Dec, 1751 ; 

 d. British Museum, 22 July, 1813. B.A. Oxon, 1769; M.D., 

 ' 1787; V.P.L.S., 1789; E.E.S., 1789. Deputy Bot. Lecturer 

 to Sibthorp at Oxford, 1786. Assistant Keeper of Nat. Hist. 

 Mus. Brit., 1791 ; Keeper, 1807. ' Cimelia Physica,' 1796. 

 Wrote descriptions for Freeman! s ' Select Specimens of 

 British Plants,' and also some for Eng. Bot. Mag. Nat. 

 Hist. i. 304; Gent. Mag.. 1813, ii. 290. 



Shaw, Henry (1800-89) : b. Sheffield, 24 July, 1800 ; d. St. 

 Louis, Missouri, 25 Aug., 1889. Merchant. Founded Mis- 

 souri Bot. Garden, 1848 ; established Shaw School of Botany, 

 Washington University : pubhshed Engelmann's Botanical 

 Papers, 1887. Gard. Chron. viii. (1890), 46. 



Shaw, Rev. Thomas (1694-1751) : b. Kendal, Westmoreland, 

 4 June, 1693 ; d. Oxford, 15 Aua., 1751 ; bur. Bramley, Hants. 

 B.A. Oxon, 1716; D.D., 1734; Cambridge, 1736. F.E.S., 

 1734. Chaplain at the English factory, Algiers, till 1733. 

 Principal of St. Edmund HaU, 1740 ; Vicar of Bramley, 1742. 

 ' Travels in Barbary,' 1738, w. appendix, enumerating pi., by 

 DiUenius. PI. at Oxford and Kew. Journ. Bot. 1800, 256. 

 Pult. ii. 173 ; Pritz. 296 ; Jacks. 346 ; Forster, Gen. p. 96 ; 

 Nich. Anecd. ii. 287 ; Nich. Illustr. i. 287 ; Foster, Alumn. 

 Oxon ; Nicholson, ' Annals of Kendal,' 346. Shawia Forst. 

 = Olearia. 



Sheffield, Rev. William (1732 ?-95) : b. Henley, Warwick, 

 1732?; d. Oxford?, 23 June, 1795. B.A. Oxon, 1754; D.D., 

 1778. Keeper of Ashmolean Museum, 1772-95. Early 

 friend of Banks. ' Botanico Oxoniensi imprimis perito,' 

 Forster, Gen. t. ix. EeeS ; Nich. lUustr. v. 517. Sheffieldia 

 Forst. = Samolus. 



Sheldrake, Timothy (fl. 1734-59). Of Norwich. M.D. 

 ' Herbal of Medicinal Plants,' 1756. ' Botanicum Medici- 

 nale,' 1759 (plates also by him). Pritz. 296 ; Jacks. 499. 



Shepherd, Henry (fl. 1838). Nephew of following, and suc- 

 ceeded him as Curator Liverpool Bot. Garden. F.L.S. 

 Assisted Eoscoe in his ' Scitamineae ' (prepared dissections 

 in Herb. Liverpool Bot. Gard.). ' Naturahst,' iv. (1838-9) 

 398 ; HaU, Fl. Liverpool, vii. 



Shepherd, John (1764 ?-1836) : b. Gosford, Cumberland, 1764 ? ; 

 d. Liverpool, 27 Sept., 1836 ; bur. St. Mary's, EdgehiU, Liver- 

 pool. A.L.S. British botanist. " A scientific horticulturist," 

 Nuttall. For 35 years at Liverpool Bot. Gard. ' Cat.,' 1808. 

 Discovered Erythraa latifolia, 1803. E. B. 1532-6, 2719. 



