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	William Roxburgh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Roxburgh (June 29, 1751 – April 10, 1815) was a Scottish physician and botanist.
		Roxburgh was born at Underwood in the parish of Craigie, Ayrshire.
		In 1803 he received a second gold medal for a communication on the growth of trees in India, and on the 31st of May, 1814, was presented with a third, in the presence of a large assembly which he personally attended, by the duke of Norfolk, who was then president of the Society of Arts.
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	William Roxburgh
		ROXBURGH, WILLIAM, a physician and eminent botanist, was born at Underwood in the parish of Craigie, on the 29th June, 1759.
		Mr Roxburgh now also became a member of the Asiatic Society, to whose Transactions he contributed, from time to time, many valuable papers, and amongst these one of singular interest on the lacca insect, from which a colour called lac lake is made, which is largely used as a substitute for cochineal.
		In 1797, Mr Roxburgh paid a visit to his native country, and returned (having been in the mean time married,) to Bengal, in 1799, when he resumed his botanical studies with increased ardour and increasing success.
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		William Roxburgh was born and educated in Scotland.
		Roxburgh took full advantage of his station in India; he set to the task of identifying, cataloging, and giving brief descriptions of the uses of the plants of India.
		Roxburgh returned to Edinburgh in poor health and died in 1815.
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		Bruce Roxburgh served in the 6th Cavalry; Capt. James Roxburgh was born circa 1802 at Calcutta and served in the 39th Infantry.
		In that letter J. Roxburgh further indicates that the third wife of Dr. Roxburgh was a Boswell lady and that their son Wills, presumably shortened from William, was a lawyer and that he had married J. Roxburgh’s sister, Bella.
		Roxburgh does not state that it was the actual day of his birth nor does he indicate if the ‘last Saturday’ was simply a birthday celebration.
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	Roxburgh Hotel Edinburgh
		The town stood on a defensible peninsula between the rivers Tweed and Teviot, with Roxburgh Castle guarding the narrow neck of the peninsula.
		The Duke of Roxburghe (pronounced "''Rox''bruh") is a title in the peerage of Scotland created in 1707 along with the titles ''Viscount Broxmouth'', ''Marquess of Bowmont and Cessford'' and ''Earl of Kelso''.
		William Roxburgh (June 29, 1759 – April 10, 1815) was a Scottish physician and botanist.
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	Royal Society of Arts Ceres Gold Medal to William Roxburgh, 'Father of Indian Botany'
		Notes: William Roxburgh (1751-1815) referred as the 'Father of Indian Botany', was born in Ayrshire.
		Roxburgh spent most of his early service in the Northern Circars at the garrison station at Samalkot some 200 miles north of Madras.
		In October 1797, Roxburgh sent specimens of Nutmeg to the Court of Directors, which continued to thrive well in the Garden; and again in November of the same year sent 170 different seeds and two chests of about 120 living plant species containing seeds.
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		It would be hard to imagine, with William so absorbed and interested in sea voyages, that she would not have heard of the scurvy and the many deaths at sea.
		But their conditions were to change for the better. William was offered a manager’s job in an indigo factory with a good salary and a secure house with servants.
		William Carey was an unusually rounded man. When he worked with his hands as a shoemaker, he cultivated his mind.
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	Flora Indica; or Descriptions of Indian Plants
		From 1793 until his death, Roxburgh was the Superintendent of the Botanic Garden in Calcutta, India.
		I, Roxburgh gave an account of Ixora Bandhuca (Bushy Ixora), describing the plant as "A bushy shrub, uncommonly full of branches; native of Hindustan, the flower of which, according to Sir William Jones, is often alluded to by the best poets of India.
		William Carey was a member and officer in the Asiatic Society.
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	BANGLAPEDIA: Roxburgh, William
		Roxburgh, William (1751-1815) referred as the 'Father of Indian Botany', William Roxburgh was born in Ayrshire, Eastern Scotland, in 1751.
		Roxburgh took up the challenge of his new post with characteristic zeal, propagating and distributing seedlings of teak, Bengal hemp, Virginia tobacco, Arabian coffee, and indigo to different parts of the subcontinent for trial cultivation.
		When Roxburgh took the charge of the Garden there were about 300 species of plants, and in 1813 when he retired from the post, he left behind about 3500 species and over 2533 drawings.
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		Born on 29th June 1751 in Craigie, Ayrshire, William Roxburgh trained initially as a medical doctor, under Dr John Hope in Edinburgh.
		Roxburgh became the Superintendent of the East India Company's Botanic Gardens in Calcutta in 1793, a position he kept until 1813.
		I of his Flora Indica; or Descriptions of Indian Plants, Roxburgh gave an account of Ixora bandhuca (Bushy Ixora), describing the plant as "A bushy shrub, uncommonly full of branches; native of Hindustan, the flower of which, according to Sir William Jones, is often alluded to by the best poets of India.
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		Historically, Roxburgh (Rosbrog in Scottish Gaelic) was an important Scottish town.
		Roxburgh is a small New Zealand town of about 750 people on the banks of the Clutha River, 40 km south of Alexandra in the South Island.
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	Fleming more information
		For a period he was appointed Superintendent of the Calcutta Botanic Garden while William Roxburgh was on leave of absence.
		Roxburgh was Superintendent of the Calcutta Botanic Garden and Chief Botanist of the East India Company.
		Roxburgh had a vast collection of drawings that were used as the basis for a number of key works such Hortus Bengalensis (1814) and the Flora Indica (1820-1824) edited by William Carey (1761-1834), and Plants of the Coast of Coromandel (1795-1819) published at the expense of the East India Company.
	www.nhm.ac.uk /nature-online/online-ex/art-themes/india/more/mango_more_info.htm (427 words)

	Scotsman.com Business - Roxburgh in trouble as clients look south
		ROXBURGH and Co, one of Edinburgh's biggest agencies and joint letting agent for Edinburgh's empty Waverley Gate, the largest single-phase office development in Scotland, is in trouble.
		Co-founder William Roxburgh says the company has suffered a slump, but he denied an Estates Gazette report that the company had called in administrators.
		Roxburgh, a former Gooch and Wagstaff equity partner, said the group would wind down certain unprofitable elements and focus on the specialisms of investment, development and funding.
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	all things William
		What we need to discover in the social realm is the moral equivalent of war; something heroic that will speak to men as universally as war does, and yet will be compatible with their spiritual selves as war has proved itself to be incompatible.
		But when they are all together and they are fighting, despite their bitching and griping and goldbricking and mortal fear, they are facing cold steel and screaming lead and hard enemies, and they are advancing and beating the hell out of the opposition.
		There's no question that historically the liberties of a people are at greatest risk in times of war, because it is in times of war that people are willing to sacrifice liberty for security and for their country.
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	Hortus Bengalensis
		Roxburgh (1751-1815) was an eminent botanist, horticulturalist, and physician.
		Originally established in 1787 by the East India Company, the Botanic Garden held significant interest for William Carey, and the garden still exists today as the Indian Botanic Garden.
		The William Carey Bust in the Agricultural Society of India memorializes Carey's contribution to the Society.
	www.wmcarey.edu /carey/hortus1 (505 words)

	Promotional Site - Places of Tourism Interest
		Even the last letter that she wrote to her people in India thanking them in person for their sympathy on the loss of her grandson in the Boer War is preserved with much care.
		A major change in policy, however, was introduced by the botanist William Roxburgh after he became superintendent of the garden in 1793.
		Roxburgh brought in plants from all over India and developed an extensive herbarium.
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	Alibris: Roxburgh
		According to Alan J. Roxburgh, the church has shifted from the center of culture to the margins.
		Responding to the changing face of society, Alan J. Roxburgh outlines three values of contemporary culture that the church must address in order to meet men and women at their points of greatest need: longing for community, concern for ecological responsibility and interest in spiritual development.
		Roxburgh of Stowe; the life of J. Roxburgh and his influence in the public schools
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	PLANT CULTURES - Gardens - East India Company (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Colonel Kyd died in 1793 and was succeeded by the remarkable William Roxburgh (1751-1815), one of the heroes of Asian botany.
		Roxburgh sent plant collectors to the Malacca islands in Southeast Asia, to collect nutmegs, cloves and sago palms.
		Roxburgh's collection of paintings was the basis of his books, including his three volume masterpiece, Plants of the coast of Coromandel (1795-1819).
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	A Systematic Revision of the Genus Crinum
		Previous better known publications are William Herbert's Amaryllidaceae of 1837, J. Baker's Handbook of the Amaryllidaceae, 1888, and the writer's Crinum Bulletin of 1970-71 with its master list.
		Roxburgh sent back a botanical collection from India which included a number of Asian Crinum, so attempts were made to identify both past and current collections with Ker-Gawler taking an aggressive lead.
		Then upon receipt of William Roxburgh's manuscript and herbarium specimens from India it was realized that Linnaeus had included Radix toxicaria Rumph as a form of C.
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	The history of orchids at Kew
		One of these was William Hooker, who maintained a small collection of orchids at his home in Suffolk before he became Professor of Botany in Glasgow in 1820.
		Sir Joseph Hooker's successor, William Thiselton﷓Dyer, was able to write in 1904 that the Kew collection has much improved in health since the reconstruction in 1898 of the houses accessible to the public.
		William Watson also came to Kew as a gardener in 1879, but was concerned with living plants for much longer, becoming Assistant Curator in 1886 and Curator from 1901﷓22.
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	Overview of William Roxburgh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Born in Craigie (South Ayrshire), Roxburgh was educated at the University of Edinburgh under Professor John Hope (1725-86), where studied medicine and botany.
		In India, he joined the Madras Medical Service and was posted in the Indian hill-station of Samulcotta (in Andhra Pradesh, north of Madras), where he was able to study the local plants.
		Roxburgh was appointed Superintendent of the Calcutta Botanic Garden (1793 - 1813), during which time he was able to produce a mass of coloured drawings which were subsequently used to illustrate his important books on the flora of India.
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	all things William
		Poems by William Cowper of the Inner Temple, Esq.
		But I am not the center of the world, or the standard of reference as between good and bad; I am not, and God is. In other words, from the beginning I put myself in God's place.
		In nothing was slavery so savage and relentless as in its attempted destruction of the family instincts of the Negro race in America.
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	sandeman - pafg05.htm - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		SANDEMAN John the second-305793 (William, David, John, Progenitor) was born in 1764.
		William married Of Douglasfield MORRISON Jane-306062 daughter of MORRISON Progenitor-306413 and MNOTKNOWN Miss-306414.
		William married MUSTARD Elizabeth-306065 daughter of MUSTARD Progenitor-306415 and MNOTKNOWN Miss-306416.
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	RoxburghJrW
		Son of William Roxburgh, the first Superintendent of the East India Company’s Garden at Calcutta; in 1799 Assistant of his father, in 1801 working at Chittagong.
		In 1803 a son of Dr Roxburgh arrived from Ambon with 22000 nutmeg plants and upwards of 6000 cloves in Bencoolen, fort Marlborough, S.
		It seems possible that Roxburgh Jr collected during his stay in the Moluccas, as in the herbarium of his father plants from Banda and other Malayan islands are extant (dupl.
	www.nationaalherbarium.nl /fmcollectors/R/RoxburghJrW.htm (293 words)

	roxquery1
		According to the 1881 census she was born in Jedburgh.
		William and Robert and James had a father William.
		William was born in about 1785 in Yetholm and died in 1867 in Wakefield, Quebec, Canada.
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	';'Chestnut Rose'
		It is named for William Roxburgh who was superintendent.
		It is named fopr William Roxburgh, who was superintendent of the gardens.
		The double form of the 'Chestnut Rose' (R. roxburghii plena), which is somewhat less virogous than either of the other forms, produces slightly fragrant, very double, medium pink blooms in the spring.
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	AIM25: Wellcome Library: Roxburgh, William (1751-1815)
		Administrative/Biographical history: William Roxburgh was born 1751 and died 1815.
		Scope and content/abstract: Abbreviated transcript of Roxburgh's 'Flora Indica', a dictionary of Indian plants and shrubs.
		It was edited by William Carey (1761-1834) and contained entries of additional plants by Nathaniel Wallich (1786-1854).
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		Wallich was held as a prisoner of war but later, in 1809, he was released from his parole on the merit of his scholarship.
		Williams received Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the University of Nevada and for many years was an elementary school teacher in Reno, retiring in 1981.
		wrightii: after William Greenwood Wright (1831-1912), one of the first lepidopterists in California, author of Butterflies of British Columbia, The Butterflies of the West Coast of the United States (1905), Colored Plates of the Butterflies of the West Coast (1907), and Butterfly Hunting in the Desert.
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	Royal Botanic Gardens, Calcutta Index , American Philosophical Society
		Founded by the East India Company in 1787, the Royal Botanic Garden in Calcutta, India, (now the Indian Botanic Garden) was one of the largest tropical gardens in the world during the nineteenth century, supporting a vast herbarium that became the core of the present day Central National Herbarium of India.
		Arranged by their native names in fourteen languages ranging from Arabic to Uriya, paired with their Latin binomial equivalent, the index represents a snapshot of one of the most important English colonial botanic gardens.
		Those species described by the former superintendent of the Garden, William Roxburgh (1751-1815), are distinctly noted.
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