John Gilbert Baker
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John Gilbert Baker FRS (13 January 1834 – 16 August 1920) was an English botanist. His son was the botanist Edmund Gilbert Baker (1864–1949).
Biography
Baker was born in Guisborough in North Yorkshire, the son of John and Mary (née Gilbert) Baker, and died in Kew. He lived in Thirsk (North Yorkshire) until 1864 when the drapers store owned by his family burnt down. The place where he lived in the town, now called Bakers Alley, is marked by a blue plaque which was unveiled in 2005 by Professor Simon Owens who, like his renowned predecessor, was then Keeper of the Herbarium at Kew.
He was educated at Ackworth School and Bootham School,[1][2] York, both being Quaker schools.
He subsequently worked at the library and herbarium of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew between 1866 and 1899, and was keeper of the herbarium from 1890 to 1899. He wrote handbooks on many plant groups, including Amaryllidaceae, Bromeliaceae, Iridaceae, Liliaceae, and ferns. His published works include Flora of Mauritius and the Seychelles (1877) and Handbook of the Irideae (1892). Baker issued several exsiccata-like series, among others the series Herbarium of British Roses [Herbarium Rosarum Britannicarum].[3][4]
He married Hannah Unthank in 1860.[5] Their son Edmund was one of twins, and his twin brother died before 1887.[6][7]
John G. Baker was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1878.[8] as well as honorary membership of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society in 1886.[9] He was awarded the Veitch Memorial Medal of the Royal Horticultural Society in 1907.
Taxa named in honour
Several plant species with the epithet bakeriana or bakeranius and bakeranium have been named in honour of John G. Baker.[10]
Including;
- Hieracium bakerianum
- Hymenostegia bakeriana
- Iris reticulata var. bakeriana (also known as Iris bakeriana)
- Lilium bakerianum
- Rhodolaena bakeriana
- Rubus bakerianus
Selected publications
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Baker, J. G. (1874). "Revision of the Genera and Species of Tulipeae". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. xiv (76): 211–310. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.1874.tb00314.x.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Baker, John Gilbert (1874). "A Classified Synonymic List of all the Known Crocuses, with their Native Countries, and References to the Works where they are Figured". Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society of London. 4 (14): 111–119.
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References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Woodland, Jenny (2011). Bootham School Register. York, England: BOSA.
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- ^ Triebel, D. & Scholz, P. 2001–2024 IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae. – Botanische Staatssammlung München: http://indexs.botanischestaatssammlung.de. – München, Germany.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Herbarium of British Roses [Herbarium Rosarum Britannicarum]: IndExs ExsiccataID=912703744". IndExs - Index of Exsiccatae. Botanische Staatssammlung München. Retrieved 2 October 2024.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Baker, John Gilbert". Who's Who. 1919. p. 100. Archived from the original on 26 May 2024. Retrieved 9 September 2015.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Hannah Unthank Individual Records - Ancestry®". www.ancestry.com. Archived from the original on 26 May 2024. Retrieved 26 May 2024.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.List of Members of the Quarterly Meeting of London & Middlesex. London: Society of Friends. 1886. p. 85. Archived from the original on 26 May 2024. Retrieved 9 September 2015.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Library and Archive Catalogue". Royal Society. Retrieved 30 January 2011.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Memoirs and proceedings of the Manchester Literary & Philosophical Society FOURTH SERIES Eighth VOLUME 1894
- ^ Dr Ross Bayton RHS Gardener’s Botanical: An Encyclopedia of Latin Plant Names (2019), p. 55, at Google Books
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.International Plant Names Index. Baker.
External links
- Works by or about [[:s:Script error: No such module "WikidataIB".|Script error: No such module "WikidataIB".]] at Wikisource
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Handbook of the Irideae by J G Baker (1892)" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 27 September 2020. Retrieved 5 November 2017.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The naturalist". 26 May 1864.
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