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Authorised form of nameRelhan; Richard (1754 - 1823)
Dates1754 - 1823
NationalityBritish
Place of birthDublin, Ireland
Date of birth1754
Date of death28 March 1823
ActivityEducation:
BA (1776), MA (1779) Trinity College, Cambridge
Career:
Chaplain of King's College, Cambridge; published Flora Cantabrigiensis (1785); Relhania (compositae) named after him by L'Heritier
Memberships:
Original FLS (1788)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election06/12/1787
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
References:
L B Glyn, 'Israel Lyons: a short but starry career. The life of an eighteenth-century Jewish botanist and astronomer' in NR 2002 vol 56 pp 275-305
CodeNA2741
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1787/11Relhan, Richard: certificate of election to the Royal Society
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