LINDLEY

John (son of George Lindley of Catton near Norwich, nurseryman). b. Catton 5 Feb. 1799; ed. at Norwich gr. sch.; agent for a London seed merchant in Belgium 1815; a istant librarian to sir Joseph Banks in London 1819–22; garden a istant secretary to Horticultural Soc. 1822, sole a istant sec. 1826–41, vice sec. 1841–58, member of council and hon. sec. 1858–62; profe or of botany in London Univ. 1829–36, in Univ. college, London 1836–60, emeritus profe or 1860 to death; lecturer on botany to Apothecaries company at Chelsea 1836–53; took charge of the entire colonial department of the International exhibition 1862; his name has been given to the genus Lindleya of the order Rosaceæ; F.R.S. 17 Jany. 1828, royal medallist 1857; edited Collectanea Britannica 1821, eight numbers; The Botanical Register 1847 etc.; Journal of the horticultural society 1846–55; chief editor of the Gardener’s Chronicle 1841 to death; author of Rosarum monograph i a or a botanical history of roses 1820; A synopsis of the British flora 1829 vol. 1 only, 3 ed. 1859; An introduction to botany 1832, 4 ed. 2 vols. 1848; Flora medic a 1838; Outlines of the first principles of botany 18—, 6 ed. called Elements of botany 1849; The vegetable kingdom 1846, 3 ed. 1853; Folia orchid ace a 1852–9, nine parts; Descriptive botany 1858; with W. Hutton The fo il flora of Great Britain 3 vols. 1831–7; with J. Paxton Paxton’s Flower garden 3 vols. 1850–3; with T. Moore The treasury of botany 1866. d. Acton Green, Middle sex 1 Nov. 1865, portrait by Eddis in rooms of Horticultural Soc. H. Field’s Memoirs of botanic garden at Chelsea (1878) 189–214; The Naturalist , iv 434–42 (1839), portrait ; The Gardener’s Chronicle (1865) 1058, 1082; Proc. of Royal Soc. xv 30–7 (1867).