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Authorised form of nameWebb; Philip Barker (1793 - 1854)
Dates1793 - 1854
NationalityBritish
Place of birthMilford House, Surrey, England
Date of birth10 July 1793
Date of death31 August 1854
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
Milford House mausoleum, Surrey
Research fieldBotany
ActivityEducation:
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
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election25/03/1824
RelationshipsEldest son of Philip Smith Webb and his wife Hannah, daughter of Sir Robert Barker; great-grandson of Philip Carteret Webb (FRS 1749)
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
CodeNA7495
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1824/01Webb, Philip Barker: certificate of election to the Royal Society
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