Richard Bradley

Richard Bradley

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Date of Death: 5 November 1732

Place of Death: Cambridge

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English botanist; the author of the first illustrated book on succulent plants, Historia plantarum succulentarum (1716–1727), and editor of the first British horticultural journal

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Elected F.R.R. in 1720

In 1714 he visited the Netherlands where he took an interest in horticulture.

He worked at Cannons, Middlesex, the estate of James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos, FRS. who was a very wealthy man until he incurred losses in the South Sea Bubble. Chandos and Bradley shared an interest in exotic plants such as the pineapple. Bradley's responsibilities at Cannons included the hot-house and the "physic garden" (i.e. a botanical garden).

He was dismissed for financial mismanagement.

In 1724 he was appointed the first Professor of Botany, Cambridge University. He indicated that he would work to establish a botanical garden in Cambridge, but died in office without the project having made any progress

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His first essays in print were two papers published in "Philosophical Transactions" for 1716 on mouldiness in melons, and the motions of the sap.

The first illustrated book on succulent plants, Historia plantarum succulentarum (1716–1727), and editor of the first British horticultural journal

1729 - publishes his course of lectures "Materia Medica"

Other Notes:

Johnson, author of History of Gardening (1829), states that Bradley was "one of the first to treat gardening and agriculture as sciences." http://hcs.osu.edu/history/history/067.html

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References and Links

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Bradley_(botanist)