• William Sherard (27 February 1659 – 11 August 1728) was an English botanist. Next to John Ray, he was considered to be one of the outstanding English...
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  • William Sherard (1659–1728) was an English botanist. William Sherard may also refer to: William Sherard, 1st Baron Sherard (1588–1640), English courtier...
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    William Sherard, 1st Baron Sherard (1588–1640) Bennet Sherard, 2nd Baron Sherard (1621–1700) Bennet Sherard, 1st Earl of Harborough, Viscount Sherard...
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    Walter Sherard Vines (1890–1974), known as Sherard Vines, was an English author and academic. He began publishing poetry in the 1910s, then in the 1920s...
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  • William Sherard, 1st Baron Sherard of Leitrim (1 August 1588 – 16 April 1640) was an English official who was created Baron Sherard in the peerage of...
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    Robert Harborough Sherard (3 December 1861 – 30 January 1943) was an English writer and journalist. He was a friend, and the first biographer, of Oscar...
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  • transplant, namely: Lord Mason, 50 Lord Sherrard [descendant of Sir William Sherard, Kt. of Stapleford Park, Leicestershire, England], 100 Sir Thomas Danby...
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    Northern Ireland until the proroguing of the Stormont parliament in 1973. William Sherard (1659–1728) was the first biologist in Ulster. The border has divided...
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  • Sherard is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include: Bennet Sherard (disambiguation), multiple people James Sherard (1666–1738)...
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    preserved specimens to Hans Sloane and to William Sherard, and seeds to various contacts including Sherard and Peter Collinson. Consequently, Catesby...
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  • 1734. It was created following an endowment by William Sherard on his death in 1728. In his will, Sherard stipulated that the first holder of the chair...
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    highly esteemed by his contemporaries. He corresponded with John Ray, William Sherard and James Petiver (England), Paul Hermann and Petrus Houttuyn (Leiden)...
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    Henry, William, John, Charles and Edward. Jane Stanley (1833–1912), who married the Rev. Bennet Sherard Kennedy (an illegitimate son of Robert Sherard, 6th...
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    named after the French botanist Pierre Magnol. The English botanist William Sherard, who studied botany in Paris under Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, a pupil...
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    and copied, by William Sherard, the English consul at Smyrna, in 1709. The first attempt at a composite text was made in 1826 by William Martin Leake,...
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  • Robert Sherard, 6th Earl of Harborough (26 August 1797 – 28 July 1859), styled Lord Sherard from 1797 to 1799, was a British peer. Sherard was born on...
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  • Bennet Sherard, 1st Earl of Harborough (9 October 1677 – 16 October 1732) (created Viscount Sherard in 1718, and Earl of Harborough in 1719) was a British...
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    from Dillen to Dillenius. In 1721, at the instance of the botanist William Sherard (1659–1728), he moved to England. In 1734 Dillenius was appointed Sherardian...
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    specimen was preserved in alcohol and had been collected by the botanist William Sherard who served as the British Consul at Smyrna between 1703 and 1716. The...
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  • April 25 – John Woodward, English naturalist (born 1665) August 11 – William Sherard, English botanist (born 1659) Caleb Threlkeld, Irish botanist (born...
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  • death in 1700. Baptised on 30 November 1621, Sherard was the eldest son of William Sherard, 1st Baron Sherard, and his wife Abigail Cave. He was educated...
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    was written by Paul Hermann and published after Hermann's death by William Sherard in Musaeum Zeylanicum. It was described in more detail by Johannes...
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    1753. The genus was named in memory of the prominent English botanist William Sherard (1659–1728). The Latin epithet arvensis means that it is found in fields...
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    William Sherard, 1st Baron Sherard, a member of the Honourable Band of Gentlemen Pensioners under King James I. Through her uncle Hon. Philip Sherard...
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  • unknown why his surname was changed. His older brother William also became a noted botanist. James Sherard may have been educated at Merchant Taylors' School...
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  • Christiaan Huygens derives the formula for centripedal force. February 27 – William Sherard, English botanist (died 1728) June 3 – David Gregory, Scottish astronomer...
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  • painter (d. 1654) 1630 – Roche Braziliano, Dutch pirate (d. 1671) 1659 – William Sherard, English botanist (d. 1728) 1667 – Ludwika Karolina Radziwiłł, Prussian-Lithuanian...
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    Sir Sherard Louis Cowper-Coles KCMG LVO (/ˈʃɛrərd ˈlwiː ˌkuːpər ˈkoʊlz/ SHERR-ərd LWEE KOO-pər KOHLZ; born 8 January 1955) is a British former diplomat...
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  • pre-Linnaean and early 18th-century collections, such as those of William Sherard, Hans Sloane, Paul Hermann, and Francesco Cupani. These collections...
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    years after his death in 1698 and edited by William Sherard. There was a second edition published in 1705. Sherard edited his notes and solicited patronage...
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