Bishop, David (1788-1849): b. Scone, Perth? c. 1788; d. Malone, Belfast, 4 Aug., 1849. Curator, Belfast Bot. Gard., 1830. ' Causal Botany,' 1829. Pritz. 28; Jacks. 68; Cott. Gard. ii. 306.
Black, Allan A. (1832-65): b. Forres, Morayshire, 1832; d. in Bay of Bengal, 4 Dec, 1865; bur. Table Island, in Cocos group. A.L.S., 1858. Apprenticed at Dunkeld. Kew gardener. Curator of Kew Herbaria. Supt. Bot. Gard., Bangalore. List of Japan plants in 'Bonplandia,' and contrib. to Hodgson's 'Japan' and 'Treasury of Botany.' Pritz. 28; Gard. Chron. 1866, 102; Journ. Bot. 1866, 64. Proc. L. Soc. 1865-6, lvi. Allanblackia, Oliver.
Blackburne, Anne (1740-93): b. Orford Hall, Warrington, 1740; d. Fairfield, Warrington, 30 Dec, 1793. Daughter of following. Correspondent of Linnaeus. Silhouette and notice in Kendrick's 'Profiles of Warrington Worthies.' Gent. Mag. xiv. 180; Dict. Nat. Biog. v. 121. Blackburnia Forst.
Blackburn, or Blackburne, John (1690-1786): b. 1690; d. 20 Dec, 1786. Of Orford, Lancashire. Built first hot-house in north of England and first ripened pine-apples. Catalogue of his garden by Adam Neal, published 1779. London 'Arboretum,' 56; Rich. Corr. xxx. 324; Gent. Mag. lvii. 204; Dict. Nat. Biog. V. 123. Blackburnia Forst.
Blackstone, John (d. 1753): Apothecary. Of Fleet Street, London. 'Fasciculus pi. circa Harefield . . .,' 1737. 'Specimen Botanicum,' 1746. MS. in Herb. Sloane, 317. Pritz. 28; Jacks. 523; Fl. Midd. 389-91; Rich. Corr. 351-5; Dict. Nat. Biog. v. 132. Print in Hope Collection. Blackstonia Hudson = Chlora L.
Blackwell, Alexander (c. 1709-47): b. Aberdeen?, circ. 1709; beheaded, Stockholm, 9 Aug., 1747. Printer. Of Chelsea. Husband of following: abridged Miller's 'Botanicum Officinale ' for her 'Herbal.' Gent. Mag. 1747, 424-6; Dict. Nat. Biog. V. 142.
Blackwell, Elizabeth (c. 1700-47): b. Aberdeen, c. 1700; d. London (?) after 1747. 'A Curious Herbal,' cuts drawn, engr. and col. by herself, 1737-9. Pult. ii. 251; Pritz. 28; Jacks. 31; Gent. Mag. xvii.; Bruce's ' Eminent Men of Aberdeen,' 307; Dict. Nat. Biog. v. 144. Blackwellia Connn.
Blair, Patrick (d. 1728): b. Dundee, Scotland; d. Boston, Lincolnsh.?, 1728. M.D. F.R.S. Practised at Dundee, London, and (fr. 1720) Boston. Out in the '15; but pardoned through Sloane. 'Botanick Essays,' 1720. 'Pharmaco-botanologia,' 1723-8. Pult. ii. 134-140; Bees; Pritz. 28; Jacks. 523; Sloane MSS. 4038; Biog. Univ.; Chalmers; Dict. Nat. Biog. v. 163. Blœria L.
Blake, John Bradby (1745-73): b. London, 4 Nov., 1745; d. Canton, 16 Nov., 1773. Supercargo to H.E.I.C. Sent many plants and seeds to Europe. Vol. of drawings in Bot. Dept. Brit. Mus. made by a Chinese instructed by him. Trans.
