Robert Francis Bree
1775–1842
Botanist and clergyman. Admitted to St John’s college, Cambridge, 1810, but did not graduate. Curate of St Giles’s, Camberwell, 1810; perpetual curate of St Chrysostom’s, Camberwell, 1814–19. Collected plants. Fellow of the Linnean Society, 1815.
Sources
Alum. Cantab.
R. Desmond 1994
London, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812 (Ancestry.com, accessed 18 March 2015)
London, England, Deaths and Burials, 1813–1980 (Ancestry.com, accessed 18 March 2015)
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Alum. Cantab.: Alumni Cantabrigienses. A biographical list of all known students, graduates and holders of office at the University of Cambridge, from the earliest times to 1900. Compiled by John Venn and J. A. Venn. 10 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1922–54.
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.
