1. John Berkenhout was an English physician, naturalist and miscellaneous writer.
12 Facts About John Berkenhout
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John Berkenhout was educated as a physician at Edinburgh and Leyden.
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John Berkenhout published several works on natural history, including Outlines of the Natural History of Great Britain and Ireland and Synopsis of the Natural History of Great Britain and Ireland.
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John Berkenhout served as a British agent in the colonies during the American Revolution.
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John Berkenhout's father intended him for a commercial career, and sent him to Germany to study languages.
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In 1778 John Berkenhout was sent by the government with the Carlisle Peace Commission to America, quite covertly.
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The Continental Congress would not allow the Commission to go beyond New York; but John Berkenhout managed to reach Philadelphia.
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John Berkenhout knew Arthur Lee, and through him contacted Richard Henry Lee.
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John Berkenhout came back to England, and was rewarded with a pension for his services.
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In 1780 John Berkenhout published Lucubrations on Ways and Means, a proposal on the imposition of taxes.
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John Berkenhout published Treatise on Hysterical and Hypochondriacal Diseases, from the French of Pierre Pomme.
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John Berkenhout translated from Swedish, as Letters from an Old Man to a Young Prince, Count Carl Gustaf Tessin's letters to the future Gustavus III of Sweden.