The genera of plants : a fragment containing part of Liriogamae / by Richard Anthony Salisbury.

  • Richard Anthony Salisbury
Date:
1866
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Credit: The genera of plants : a fragment containing part of Liriogamae / by Richard Anthony Salisbury. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    PREFACE. Richard Anthony Salisbury, the only son of Richard Markham, a cloth-merchant in Leeds, was born in 1761; he lived for some time at Chapel Allerton in Yorkshire, and published a Catalogue of the Plants of his garden there; he subsequently sold his property in that county and came to London, and lived at 18 Queen Street, Edgeware Road, where, in a small garden not more than thirty feet square, he cultivated several hundred rare plants, each in a small pot. He married Caroline Stainforth in 1796, and had a daughter Eleanor, born on the 6th of November 1797, who married Major Brice, of Bath. His married life was not a happy one. In January and March 1829 he had two paralytic attacks, and he died in London about the middle of March in that year. In a letter in my possession, he states that “ in the year 1780 I first became acquainted with Mrs. Anna Salisbury, a very old maiden lady, who in 1785 gave me £10,000 three per cents, to pursue my studies in botany and gardening, on condition of my taking the name of Salisbury only, out of respect to the memory of her brother John Salisbury of Exeter deceased.” In the same letter he observes, “ I have for many years in vain sought a relation of my maternal grandmother, whose name was Salisbury with an i, not Salusbury with an uand in another letter he says, Mrs. Anna Salisbury was a connexion of my maternal grandmother, who was Hester Salisbury of Wales;” and he proceeds, “ my heir at law is immensely rich, so I follow Mrs. Anna Salisbury’s plan in some respects.” “ My mother descended from Jonathan Lay cock, of Shaw Hill, who married Mary Lyte, sister of Squire Lyte of Lytes Carey, who trans- lated Dodoens’4 Herball ’ into English; so I inherit a taste for botany from very ancient blood.” a 2
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