Authorised form of name | Webb; Philip Barker (1793 - 1854) |
Dates | 1793 - 1854 |
Nationality | British |
Place of birth | Milford House, Surrey, England |
Date of birth | 10 July 1793 |
Date of death | 31 August 1854 |
DatesAndPlaces | Burial: Milford House mausoleum, Surrey |
Research field | Botany |
Activity | Education: Harrow School; Christ Church College, Oxford. BA (1815); Career: Studied geology under William Buckland (FRS 1818); travelled in Italy, Greece and the Troad, rediscovering the Scamander & Simois (1817-1818); requested that his name be struck out from the lists of the Society (1824); collected natural history specimins in Spain (1826), Portugal and Morocco (1827), the Canary Islands (1828-1830), Italy (1848-1850) & Ireland (1857); is collections were kept in a museum in Florence; wrote on the natural history of the countries he visited; suffered from gout in Paris (May 1854) and died shortly after Memberships: FSA; FLS; MGS
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Membership category | Fellow |
Date of election | 25/03/1824 |
Relationships | Eldest son of Philip Smith Webb and his wife Hannah, daughter of Sir Robert Barker; great-grandson of Philip Carteret Webb (FRS 1749) |
Source | Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DNB |
Code | NA7495 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1824/01 | Webb, Philip Barker: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |