Linn. Soc. i. 172. Pritz. 28; Gent. Mag. 1776, xlix. 348; Dict. Nat. Biog. v. 170. Wedgwood medallion.
Blandford, George, Marquis of [see Spencer-Churchill, George]
Blane, Sir Gilbert, Bart. (1749-1834): b. Blanefield, co. Ayr, 29 Aug., 1749; d. London, 26 June, 1834. M.D. Glasgow, 1778. F.E.S. Physician to the fleet. Baronet, 1812. 'Nardus indica'; Phil. Trans. 1790, lxxx. 284. Proc. R. S. iii. 303; Munk, ii. 325; Diet. Nat. Biog. v. 202. Portr. by Shee at Roy. Coll. Physicians.
Bligh, William (1753-4-1817): b. Tinten, Cornwall?, 1753-4; d. London, 7 Dec., 1817; bur. Lambeth Churchyard. Captain of 'Bounty.' Introd. bread-fruit to W. Indies. Admiral, 1811. F.E.S. 1801. Governor of New South Wales, 1805. Sent some hundreds of plants from E. & W. Indies to Kew. Ann. Bot. ii. 570; Dict. Nat. Biog. v. 219. Blighia Koenig.
Blinkworth, Richard (fl. 1830). Collected at Kumaon. Correspondent of Wallich. Blinkworthia Choisy.
Bloxam, Rev. Andrew (1801-78): b. Rugby, 22 Sept., 1801; d. Harborough Magna, Leicester, 2 Feb., 1878. Rector of Twycross, Leicestershire, and afterwards of Harborough. Visited S. America as naturalist to the 'Blonde,' 1824-5 (Mag. Nat. Hist. 1831, 145). 'Bot. of Twycross,' Phyt. 'Bot. of Chamwood Forest,' w. Ch. Babington, in Potter's History. E. B. 2854, 2944. Critical in Rubi and Fungi. Fungi and MSS. in Herb. Mus. Brit. Jacks. 523; Journ. Bot. 1878, 96; Card. Chron. 1878, i. 311; Fl. Warwicksh. 501; Dict. Nat. Biog. v. 264. Water-colour by Turner of him and brothers at funeral of their uncle. Sir T. Lawrence, in Nat. Gallery.
Bobart, or Bobert, Jacob (1597-8-9-1680): b. Brunswick, 1597-8-9; d. Oxford, 4 Feb., 1680; bur. St. Peter' s-in-the-East, Oxford. Father of following. Superintendent, Oxford Bot. Gard., 1632. 'Catalogus . . . Oxoniensis,' 1648, 2nd ed., with Stephens and Browne, 1658. Pult. i. 312; Jacks. 415; Pritz. 30; Biog. Sketch by H. T. Bobart, 1884; Felton, 108; Journ. Hort. 1876, 364, with portr.; Wood, Fasti, ii. 189; Dict. Nat. Biog. v. 285. Oil portr. by D. Loggan, 1675, at Linn. Soc.; engr. by Burghers; engr. at Kew. Bobartia L.
Bobart, Jacob (1640-1-1719): b. Oxford, 2 Aug., 1641; d. Oxford, 28 Dec, 1719; bur. St. Peter's-in-the-East, Oxford. Succeeded preceding in 1680 as Superintendent of Bot. Gard., and in 1684, after Morison, Prof. Bot. Oxford. Published Morison's 'Historia,' vol. iii. 1699. Herbarium in 12 vols, at the Bot. Garden, Oxford. Pult. i. 312; Biog. Sketch by H. T. Bobart, 1884; Grey's Hudibras; Rich. Corr. 10, 152; Nich. Illustr. i. 342, 357, 361; Dict. Nat. Biog. V. 286. Oil portr. at Oxford Bot. Gard. Engr. in 'Oxford Almanack,' 1719. Bobartia L.
Bohler, John (1796-1872): b. South Wingfield, Derbyshire,
