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See also:GERARD, See also:JOHN (1545-1612) , See also:English herbalist and surgeon, was See also:born towards the end of 1545 at See also:Nantwich in See also:Cheshire. He was educated at Wisterson, or Willaston, 2 M. from Nantwich, and eventually, after spending some See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time in travelling, took up his See also:abode in See also:London, where he exercised his profession. For more than twenty years he also acted as See also:superintendent of the gardens in London and at Theobalds, in See also:Hertfordshire, of See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Cecil, See also:Lord See also:Burghley. In 1596 he published a See also:catalogue of See also:plants cultivated in his own See also:garden in See also:Holborn, London, 1039 in number, inclusive of varieties of the same See also:species. Their English as well as their Latin names are given in a revised edition of the catalogue issued in 1599. In 1597 appeared Gerard's well-known Herball, described by him in its See also:preface as " the first fruits of these mine own labours," but more truly an See also:adaptation of the Stirpium historiae pemptades of Rembert Dodoens (1518-1585), published in 1583, or rather of a See also:translation of the whole or See also:part of the same by Dr See also:Priest, with M. Lobel's arrangement. Of the numerous illustrations of the Herball sixteen appear to be See also:original, the See also:remainder are mostly impressions from the See also:wood blocks employed by See also:Jacob See also:Theodorus Tabernaemontanus in his Icones stir pium, published at See also:Frankfort in 1590. A second edition of the Herball, with considerable improvements and additions, was brought out by See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:- JOHNSON, ANDREW
- JOHNSON, ANDREW (1808–1875)
- JOHNSON, BENJAMIN (c. 1665-1742)
- JOHNSON, EASTMAN (1824–1906)
- JOHNSON, REVERDY (1796–1876)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD (1573–1659 ?)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR (1781–1850)
- JOHNSON, SAMUEL (1709-1784)
- JOHNSON, SIR THOMAS (1664-1729)
- JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM (1715–1774)
- JOHNSON, THOMAS
Johnson in 1633, and reprinted in 1636. Gerard was elected a member of the See also:court of assistants of the See also:barber-surgeons in 1595, by which See also:company he was appointed an examiner in 1598, junior See also:warden in 16o5, and See also:master in 16o8. He died in See also:February 1612, and was buried at St See also:Andrews, Holborn.
See Johnson's preface to his edition of the Herball; and A Catalogue of Plants cultivated in the Garden of John Gerard in the years 1596-1599, edited with Notes, References to Gerard's Herball, the Addition of See also:modern Names, and a See also:Life of the Author, by See also:Benjamin Daydon See also:Jackson, F.L.S., privately printed (London, 1876, 4to).
End of Article: GERARD, JOHN (1545-1612)
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