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Edward Jacob
(c. 1710 - 26 Nov 1788)
English naturalist who published Plantæ Favershamienses (1777) on the flora of Faversham, Kent, and wrote about his fossil finds on his estate on the Isle of Sheppey.
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Edward Jacob
(Obituary from The Gentleman's Magazine, 1811)
Obituary, 1788
[p.341] Nov. 26. At Faversham, in Kent, in his seventy-eighth year, Edward Jacob, Esq. F.A.S. 1755, many years surgeon in that town, and several times mayor thereof: a gentleman well known to the learned as an antiquary and a naturalist; and more particularly by his “History of Faversham, 1774,” 8vo; “Plantæ Favershamenses et Fossilia Shepeiana, 1777,” 12mo; his account of fossil elephants bones in Shepey, in Phil. Trans, vol. XLVIII. p. 626 ; and of the Roman pottery fished up at the mouth of the Thames, in Archæologia, vol. V. p. 282; by his collections in both those branches of literature, his elegant cabinet of shells, medals, &c. with the sight and the use of which he ever readily assisted his friends; but what most endeared him to all who had the pleasure of his acquaintance was, an obliging disposition, pleasantness of manners, and a heart replete with every social and moral virtue.
From John Walker,
A Selection of Curious Articles from the Gentleman's Magazine (1811), 341.
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- Science Quotes by Edward Jacob.
- 26 Nov - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Jacob's death.
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Edward Jacob - Biography from Dictionary of National Biography (1892).
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