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19th-century British botanists

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Joseph Dalton Hooker
British botanist, lichenologist, and surgeon (1817–1911)
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Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz was Queen of Great Britain and Ireland as the wife of King George III from their marriage on 8 September 1761 until her death in 1818. The Acts of Union 1800 unified Great Britain and Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. As George's wife, she was also Electress of Hanover until becoming Queen of Hanover on 12 October 1814. Charlotte was Britain's longest-serving queen consort, serving for 57 years and 70 days.
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Samuel Frederick Gray
British botanist, mycologist, and pharmacologist (1766-1828)
Charles Sturt
Australian explorer (1795-1869)
Francis Darwin
British naturalist and son of Charles Darwin (1848-1925)
Richard Anthony Salisbury
British botanist and gardener (1761-1829)
Mary Elizabeth Barber
British naturalist, botanist, entomologist, ornithologist, botanical and scientific collector, scientific illustrator, painter and poet (1818-1899)
Thomas Andrew Knight
British botanist (1759-1838)
Anna Worsley Russell
English botanist (1807-1876)
Annie Lorrain Smith
British mycologist and lichenologist (1854-1937)
Robert Hermann Schomburgk
German explorer, botanist, and ichthyologist (1804-1865)
Frederick Manson Bailey
Australian botanist (1827-1915)
Aylmer Bourke Lambert
British botanist (1761-1842)
Albert Charles Seward
British botanist (1863–1941)
Albert Bruce Jackson
British dendrologist (1876-1947)
Henry John Elwes
English botanist, entomologist, author, lepidopterist, collector and traveller (1846-1922)
John Forbes Royle
British botanist (1799-1858)
William Herbert
British botanist, botanical illustrator, poet, and clergyman (1778–1847)
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
British botanist (1843-1928)
Charles Christopher Parry
British-American botanist and mountain climber (1823–1890)
Ethel Sargant
British botanist (1863-1918)
Hugh Low
British naturalist (1824-1905)
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Alfred William Bennett
British botanist and publisher (1833-1902)
William Marsden
British orientalist (1754-1836)
Dorothea Pertz
English botanist (1859-1939)
Thomas Moore
British gardener and botanist (1821–1887)
Clarence Bicknell
British botanist and archaeologist (1842-1918)
Arthur William Hill
British botanist and taxonomist (1875-1941)
Amelia Griffiths
British phycologist (1768–1858)
Henry Wickham
British botanist and self-declared "biopirate" (1846-1928)
Christopher Edmund Broome
British mycologist (1812-1886)
Thomas Lobb
British botanist (1811-1894)
Thomas Croxen Archer
British botanist and museum director (1817-1885)
William Fawcett
British botanist (1851-1926)
Frances Acton
British botanist, archaeologist and artist (1794-1881)
Charlotte Canning, Countess Canning
British artist and the first vicereine of India (1817–1861)
William Watson
British botanist and horticulturalist (1858-1925)
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John Dillwyn Llewelyn
British photographer and botanist (1810-1882)
Richard Weston
British botanist (1733-1806)
Richard Buxton
British botanist (1786-1865)
Emilia Frances Noel
British botanist, author and illustrator (1868-1950)
Henry Harold Welch Pearson
South African botanist (1870-1916)
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James Ebenezer Bicheno
British colonial official (1785-1851)
Elizabeth Andrew Warren
Cornish botanist (1786–1864)
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Sidney Alfred Skan
English botanist (1870–1939)
Charles Samuel Pollock Parish
Anglo-Indian botanist (1822-1897)
Phoebe Lankester
British botanist known for popular science writing (1825–1900)
Elizabeth Lomax
English botanist (1810-1895)