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John Fothergill FRS (8 March 1712 – 26 December 1780) was an English physician, plant collector, philanthropist and Quaker. His medical writings were influential, and he built up a sizeable botanic garden in what is now West Ham Park in London.
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Fothergill was born in Southampton, England and brought up in Darlington. [1] He came from a family who had a doctor in the family in the previous six generations. [4] His ancestor was the eminent Quaker physician and naturalist John Fothergill and his own branch of the family came from the elder brother of John Fothergill.
Roger Shakespear also written as Roger Shakespeare (flourished 1777–1782) was a botanical collector. [1] He is known to have collected specimens in South America, North America and Jamaica for Sir Joseph Banks (1743–1820) and Dr John Fothergill (1712–1780).
The Reverend Marmaduke Fothergill (1652 – 1731) was a Yorkshire clergyman, a scholar of Christian liturgy and collector of books. [1] [2] [3] His donated collection is held as the Fothergill Collection at York Minster Library. [4] It includes some titles which were previously in the library of John Price (Pricaeus). [5]
Agnes Hay Somerville "Rhoda" Fothergill [1] (1929 – 19 June 2019) [1] [2] [3] was a Scottish historian, educator and archaeologist. She published several historical guides to Perth , Scotland. Her focus areas were Old Perth, the Greyfriars Burial Ground and people of 19th-century Perth. [ 4 ]
Fothergill, son of surgeon George Fothergill and his wife Sarah Milner, was born at Morland, Westmorland, on 11 April 1841, studied at the University of Edinburgh, and there graduated M.D. 1865. [1] He afterwards studied at Vienna and Berlin and began professional work as a general practitioner at Morland. [1]
John Fothergill may refer to: John Fothergill (physician) (1712–1780), English physician and botanist John Fothergill (merchant) (1730–1782), English merchant