Richard Richardson (1663-1741),English botanist and antiquarian. Richardson practised as a medical doctor,but had studied botany at Leiden with Paul Hermann. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society (1712). He travelled widely in search of rare botanical specimens,and kept a botanical garden at North Bierly. He corresponded widely with other botanists,and also wrote on the antiquities of Lancashire and Yorkshire. Artwork from 'Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century',an 8-volume work published between 1817 and 1858 by English printer and antiquarian John Nichols and his son John Bowyer Nichols | |
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