1. George Bentham was the author of a number of important botanical works, particularly flora.
15 Facts About George Bentham
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George Bentham is best known for his taxonomic classification of plants in collaboration with Joseph Dalton Hooker, his Genera Plantarum.
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George Bentham's mother, Mary Sophia Bentham, was a botanist and author.
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George Bentham had no formal education but had a remarkable linguistic aptitude.
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The family made a long tour through France, staying two years at Montauban, where George Bentham studied Hebrew and mathematics in the Protestant Theological School.
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George Bentham immediately tested them on the first plant he saw.
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George Bentham's uncle pushed him to study law at Lincoln's Inn.
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George Bentham was called to the bar and in 1832 held his first and only legal brief.
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George Bentham married Sarah Jones, daughter of Sir Harford Jones Brydges, on 11 April 1833; they did not have children.
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George Bentham died at his London home on 10 September 1884, aged 83.
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George Bentham's life spanned the Darwinian revolution, and his young colleague Joseph Dalton Hooker was Darwin's closest friend and one of the first to accept Darwin's ideas.
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George Bentham was awarded the Royal Medal of the Royal Society in 1859 and elected a Fellow in 1862.
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George Bentham served as president of the Linnean Society of London from 1861 to 1874.
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George Bentham was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1866.
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George Bentham began with the Flora Hongkongensis in 1861, which was the first comprehensive work on any part of the little-known flora of China and Hong Kong, including Hong Kong croton.