Robert Kaye Greville
1794–1866
Botanist, entomologist, and social reformer. President, Botanical Society of Edinburgh, 1839, 1846, and 1866; honorary secretary, from circa 1861 until 1866. Edited the Amethyst, or Christian’s Annual, 1832–4; secretary of the Sabbath Alliance; one of the compilers of the Church of England hymn-book (1838). Vice-president of the Anti-slavery Convention, 1840. Earned a living as a landscape painter in his later years.
Sources
Medical directory 1861–7
Modern English biography
ODNB
Transactions of the Botanical Society [of Edinburgh] 1 (1844).
Bibliography
Medical directory: The London medical directory … every physician, surgeon, and general practitioner resident in London. London: C. Mitchell. 1845. The London and provincial medical directory. London: John Churchill. 1848–60. The London & provincial medical directory, inclusive of the medical directory for Scotland, and the medical directory for Ireland, and general medical register. London: John Churchill. 1861–9. The medical directory … including the London and provincial medical directory, the medical directory for Scotland, the medical directory for Ireland. London: J. & A. Churchill. 1870–1905.
Modern English biography: Modern English biography, containing many thousand concise memoirs of persons who have died since the year 1850. By Frederick Boase. 3 vols. and supplement (3 vols.). Truro, Cornwall: the author. 1892–1921.
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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