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British botanist (1834–1920)
John Gilbert Baker
John Baker
Born 13 January 1834Guisborough
Died 16 August 1920 Nationality English Education Quaker schools
Ackworth School
Bootham School Occupation Botanist Scientific career
Author abbrev. (botany) Baker
John Gilbert Baker
FRS (13 January 1834 – 16 August 1920) was an
English
botanist . His son was the botanist
Edmund Gilbert Baker (1864–1949).
Biography
Baker was born in
Guisborough in
North Yorkshire , the son of John and Mary (née Gilbert) Baker, and died in
Kew .
He was educated at Quaker schools at Ackworth School and
Bootham School ,
[2]
[3] York.
He then worked at the library and
herbarium of the
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew between 1866 and 1899, and was keeper of the herbarium from 1890 to 1899. He wrote handbooks on many plant groups, including
Amaryllidaceae ,
Bromeliaceae ,
Iridaceae ,
Liliaceae , and
ferns . His published works include
Flora of Mauritius and the Seychelles (1877) and Handbook of the Irideae (1892).
He married Hannah Unthank in 1860.
[4] Their son Edmund was one of twins, and his twin brother died before 1887.
[5]
[6]
John G. Baker was elected a
Fellow of the Royal Society in 1878.
[7] He was awarded the
Veitch Memorial Medal of the
Royal Horticultural Society in 1907.
Taxa named in honour
Several plant species with the epithet bakeriana or bakeranius and bakeranium have been named in honour of John G. Baker.
[8]
Including;
Selected publications
A picture of Baker (undated, but before 1906)
References
^ Britten, James (1920). Britten, James (ed.).
"John Gilbert Baker (1834–1928)" . The Journal of Botany, British and Foreign . 58 . London: Taylor and Francis: 233–238.
Archived from the original on 18 July 2022. Retrieved 18 July 2022 – via
BHL .
^ Woodland, Jenny (2011). Bootham School Register . York, England: BOSA.
^ Desmond, Ray. "Baker, John Gilbert".
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press.
doi :
10.1093/ref:odnb/38296 . (Subscription or
UK public library membership required.)
^
"Baker, John Gilbert" . Who's Who . 1919. p. 100.
Archived from the original on 26 May 2024. Retrieved 9 September 2015 .
^
"Hannah Unthank Individual Records - Ancestry®" . www.ancestry.com .
Archived from the original on 26 May 2024. Retrieved 26 May 2024 .
^
List of Members of the Quarterly Meeting of London & Middlesex . London: Society of Friends. 1886. p. 85.
Archived from the original on 26 May 2024. Retrieved 9 September 2015 .
^
"Library and Archive Catalogue" . Royal Society. Retrieved 30 January 2011 . [
permanent dead link ]
^ Dr Ross Bayton
RHS Gardener’s Botanical: An Encyclopedia of Latin Plant Names (2019) , p. 55, at
Google Books
^
International Plant Names Index .
Baker .
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