John Leonard Knapp
1767–1845
Botanist. Joined the navy at a young age but left due to ill health. Lieutenant in the Herefordshire militia, 1792; captain, Northamptonshire militia, 1795, but resigned the same year. In 1813, moved to Alveston, Gloucestershire, where he owned some farmland. Wrote The journal of a naturalist (1829), describing the natural history, agriculture, and life of the area.
Source
ODNB.
Bibliography
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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