12 Facts About Benjamin Stillingfleet

Benjamin Stillingfleet was an English botanist, polymath, and author.

Benjamin Stillingfleet was born in 1702 in Wood Norton, Norfolk to Mary Ann and Edward Stillingfleet.

Benjamin Stillingfleet was one of four children, and the only son.

Benjamin Stillingfleet was invited to Trinity College, Cambridge in 1720 at the request of the Master of the college Richard Bentley.

Benjamin Stillingfleet was in charge of the music and the scenery.

Windham went on to become a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1744 based on the explorations that he and Benjamin Stillingfleet had made of glaciers in Switzerland, as well as for his mathematical abilities which Benjamin Stillingfleet had tutored.

In 1761 Benjamin Stillingfleet was lauded for his contribution to William Hudson's Flora Anglica, another botanical text.

Benjamin Stillingfleet published a Calendar of Flora in 1755, based on the observations of Theophrastus, an early formalization of the study of plant phenology and based on Linnaeus' promotion of the idea of natural calendars.

Benjamin Stillingfleet planned to publish an edition of Paradise Lost, but Stillingfleet gave up the project after Thomas Newton's 1749 edition was published.

One story tells that Benjamin Stillingfleet was not rich enough to have the proper formal dress, which included black silk stockings, and so he attended the society's meetings in everyday blue worsted stockings.

Benjamin Stillingfleet died at his lodgings in Piccadilly and his papers were burnt following his own instructions.

Benjamin Stillingfleet left his estate to his one remaining sister.