HENSLOW

Rev. John Stevens ( 1 son of John Prentis Henslow, solicitor, Enfield, d. 1854 ). b. Rochester, Kent 6 Feb. 1796; ed. at free gram. sch. Rochester and St. John’s coll. Cam., 16 wr. 1818, B.A. 1818, M.A. 1821; F.L.S. 1818; F.G.S. 1819; founded with Adam Sedgwick, the Cambridge Phil. Soc. 15 Nov. 1819; prof. of mineralogy at Cam. 1822 to March 1827; P.C. of St. Mary the Le , Cam. 1824–32; prof. of botany at Cam. June 1825 to death, his enthusiasm rendered botany popular, Darwin and others were his pupils; V. of Cholsey, Berks. 1832–7; R. of Hitcham, Suffolk 1837 to death; established study of botany in his schools; for tithe dinners substituted excursions; discovered beds of phosphatic nodules in the Suffolk Crag 1843 much used for manure; a founder of the Ipswich museum 1848; author of Catalogue of British plants 1829, 2 ed. 1835; The principles of descriptive and physiological botany 1836; An account of Roman antiquities found at Rougham, Bury St. Edmunds 1843; A dictionary of botanical terms 1856 and other books. d. Hitcham rectory house 16 May 1861, his collections divided between Ipswich, Cambridge and Kew museums. Jenyns’ Memoir of J. S. Henslow (1862), portrait ; Popular Science Monthly , iii , 159–72 (1873), portrait ; Long man’s Mag. June 1883 pp. 147–59.