Michael Pakenham Edgeworth
1812–81
Irish botanist. Son of Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1744–1817; ODNB), Irish landowner and friend of Erasmus Darwin, and his fourth wife, Frances Anne Beaufort (1769–1867). Collected plants in Aden, India, and Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Appointed commissioner for the settlement of Punjab, 1850.
Sources
R. Desmond 1994
ODNB
Bibliography
Desmond, Ray. 1994. Dictionary of British and Irish botanists and horticulturists including plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers. New edition, revised with the assistance of Christine Ellwood. London: Taylor & Francis and the Natural History Museum. Bristol, Pa.: Taylor & Francis.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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