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    Professor John Hope FRSE FRS PRCPE (10 May 1725 – 10 November 1786) was a Scottish physician and botanist. He did enormous work on plant classification...
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  • judge Sir John Bruce Hope (c.1684–1766), MP for Kinross, 1727–1734, 1741–1747 John Hope, 2nd Earl of Hopetoun (1704–1781) John Hope (botanist) (1725–1786)...
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  • His Majesty's Botanist is a member of the Royal household in Scotland. The office was created in 1699, and from 1768 until 1956 it was combined with the...
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    Blackadder (died 1803) John Hope (botanist) (1725–1786), his physician son, Thomas Charles Hope (1766–1844), his grandson, John Hope (lawyer) (1807–1893)...
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    John Parkinson (1567–1650; buried 6 August 1650) was the last of the great English herbalists and one of the first of the great English botanists. He...
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    to settle the government of the newly acquired colony of the Cape of Good Hope. Barrow was entrusted with the task of reconciling the Boer settlers and...
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    Sir John Hill (c.1714 – 22 November 1775) was an English composer, actor, author and botanist. He contributed to contemporary periodicals and engaged...
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  • John Gillies (c. 1792–1834) was a Scottish naval surgeon who later became an explorer and botanist, travelling extensively in South America. Educated at...
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  • of the botanist John Hope and the great-grandfather of the chemist Thomas Charles Hope, FRSE. Archibald Hope was the second son of Sir John Hope, Lord...
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  • John Forbes, M.D. (1798–1823) was an English botanist. Forbes was born in 1798, and became a pupil of John Shepherd of the Liverpool botanic garden. The...
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