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    John Bellenden Ker (né Gawler) was an English botanist, born about 1764, Ramridge, Andover, Hampshire, which was where he died in June 1842. On 5 November...
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    Bellenden Ker is the second-highest mountain in Queensland, Australia, with a height of 1,593 metres (5,226 ft). It is named after the botanist John Bellenden...
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    The Bellenden Ker Range, also known as the Wooroonooran Range is a coastal mountain range in Far North Queensland, Australia. Part of the Great Dividing...
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  • and Broughton (died 1576), Lord Justice Clerk John Bellenden Ker Gawler (1764–1842), English botanist John Ballenden (c. 1812–1856), Scottish fur trader...
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    coordinates) Bellenden Ker is a rural town and locality in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, the locality of Bellenden Ker had a...
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  • William Bellenden-Ker, 7th Lord Bellenden, 4th Duke of Roxburghe (20 October 1728 – 23 October 1805) was a Scottish nobleman. William was born in 1728...
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  • John Bellenden, 2nd Lord Bellenden (died March 1707) was a Scottish nobleman. Born John Ker, he was the fourth son of William Ker, 2nd Earl of Roxburghe...
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    Hokkaidō. The Latin name is misleading due to an error by the botanist John Bellenden Ker. Lilium pensylvanicum reaches a height of 30–70 centimetres (12–28 in)...
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    Charles Henry Bellenden Ker (c.1785–1871) was an English barrister and legal reformer. The son of John Bellenden Ker, he was born about 1785. As a young...
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    Duke of Roxburghe (redirect from Earl Ker)
    York John Ker, 3rd Duke of Roxburghe (1740–1804), elder son of the 2nd Duke inheriting the 1722 titles, died without issue William Bellenden-Ker, 4th...
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  • William Bellenden-Ker, 4th Duke of Roxburghe, who died shortly thereafter, without heirs. The succession was contested by Major-General Walter Ker and the...
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    up to become “John, Esquire,” and goes in search of richer plums, where he is joined in his quest by "female Horners." John Bellenden Ker Gawler charged...
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    before his death in 1819. During this period, the text was provided by John Bellenden Ker Gawler, and Edwards himself provided paintings, which were engraved...
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    Earl Ker and Baron Ker, which had been created for his father in 1722 in the Peerage of Great Britain, became extinct. His cousin William Bellenden, 7th...
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    nursery rhymes have been argued to have hidden meanings and origins. John Bellenden Ker Gawler (1764–1842), for example, wrote four volumes arguing that English...
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    was one of the first yellow roses introduced to European gardens; John Bellenden Ker Gawler stated in 1815 that the species had been cultivated in England...
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  • John Gawler may refer to: John Cox Gawler, keeper of the Jewel House and British Israelite author John Bellenden Ker Gawler, English botanist This disambiguation...
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  • Bellenden of Broughton, and Margaret Ker. His mother was the sister of Robert Ker, 1st Earl of Roxburghe, and the second daughter of Sir William Ker of...
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  • resigned his peerage in favour of his first cousin twice removed, John Ker (later Bellenden). In 1804, the seventh lord inherited the dukedom of Roxburghe...
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  • semantic change. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company. 2008, p. 55. John Bellenden Ker, An Essay on the Archæology of our Popular...
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    Carolus Linnaeus the Younger in 1782 as Iris bituminosa. In 1805, John Bellenden Ker Gawler moved this species to its current name, Moraea bituminosa....
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  • Lord Bellenden, the son of Sir James Bellenden of Broughton, and Margaret Ker). His only sister, Lady Jean Ker, was married to Colin Lindsay, 3rd Earl...
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  • Captain Charles Robert George Innes-Ker, 11th Duke of Roxburghe (born 18 February 1981), also known as Charles Innes or Charlie Roxburghe and styled as...
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    Provinces and the Free State of South Africa. It was first described by John Bellenden Ker Gawler in 1814. Members of the genus Strumaria have flowers in umbels...
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  • struck up a bit of a jig. John Bellenden Ker (1840). Essay on the Archaeology of Our Popular Phrases: Terms and Nursery Rhymes. John King. pp. 191–. Richard...
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    spreading lobes, crimson stripes, and wavy crimson margins. Described by John Bellenden Ker Gawler in 1817 as Amaryllis, but transferred to Hippeastrum by William...
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  • (1728–1805), later Bellenden-Ker, later 7th Lord Bellenden, later 4th Duke of Roxburghe. Through his only daughter Lady Jean Ker, he was a grandfather...
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    Bellenden], Mary, of Mamore (bap. 1685, d. 1736), courtier. Vol. 1. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/92351. John M. Simpson, 'Ker, John,...
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    Countess Dowager of Dalhousie and her second husband John Drummond Bellenden, 2nd Lord Bellenden of Broughton. She was their third daughter and she was...
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    long. H. carneus was first described in 1821 by the English botanist John Bellenden Ker Gawler (1764–1842), first editor of Edward's Botanical Register. "The...
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