Peter Collinson
1694–1768
Botanist. Partner in his family’s business trading cloth, especially with North America; friend of Benjamin Franklin and the botanist John Bartram, as well as many other important figures in botany and natural history generally. Had a famous garden at Mill Hill. FRS 1728.
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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