William Withering
1741–99
Physician, botanist, and mineralogist. MD, Edinburgh, 1766. Practised medicine in Stafford and, after information from Erasmus Darwin, in Birmingham from 1775. Chief physician to the Birmingham General Hospital, 1775–88.
Sources
DNB
Gilbert 1977
ODNB
Bibliography
DNB: Dictionary of national biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. 63 vols. and 2 supplements (6 vols.). London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1912. Dictionary of national biography 1912–90. Edited by H. W. C. Davis et al. 9 vols. London: Oxford University Press. 1927–96.
Gilbert, Pamela. 1977. A compendium of the biographical literature on deceased entomologists. London: British Museum (Natural History).
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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