About Caleb Threlkeld
Lived 1676 – 1728 (aged 51). Caleb Threlkeld was a British botanist and explorer.
Caleb Threlkeld (1676–1728) was an Irish botanist, dissenting cleric and physician.
He wrote the first flora of Ireland under the title Synopsis Stirpium Hibernicarum .....Dispositarum sive Commentatio de Plantis Indigenis praesertim Dublinensibus instituta which was published in Dublin in 1726. An appendix was based on botanical notes made by Thomas Molyneux.
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Who was Caleb Threlkeld?
British botanist (1676-1728)
When was Caleb Threlkeld born?
Caleb Threlkeld was born on 31 May 1676.
When did Caleb Threlkeld die?
Caleb Threlkeld died on 28 April 1728 in Dublin.
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Caleb Threlkeld was a botanist and explorer.
What nationality was Caleb Threlkeld?
Caleb Threlkeld was British.
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