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154 BIOGRAPHICAX, INDEX OF BRITISH AND IRISH BOTANISTS.
Plomley, Francis (1805 9-1860) : d, Maidstone, 9fcli Jan. 1860.
F.L.S., 1845. Lectured on Botany to Weald of Kent Farmers'
Club, 1849-51. Proc. Linn. Soc. 1860-61, xlii.
Plot, Robert (1640-1696) : b. Sutton Baron, Borden, Kent, 1640;
d. same place, SOtli April, 1696; bur. Borden. B.A., Oxon,
1661. M.A.,1664. D.C.L., 1671. F.R.S., 1677; Sec, 1682.
First Keeper of Asbmolean Museum, 1683. Mowbray Herald,
1695. 'Nat. Hist, of Oxfordshire,' 1677. 'Nat. Hist, of
Staffordshire,' 1679. Plants in Hb. Sloane, cxiii. Pult. i. 350;
Jacks. 592; Nich. Anec. ix. 547; Gent. Mag. Ixv., 1089;
Lhwyd's ' Nat. Hist.' ed. 2 ; Hasted, ' History of Kent '
;
Allibone ; Chalmers ; Hoefer ; Eose ; Michaud. Oil portr. in
Bodleian Gallery. Engr. in Hope Collection. Portr. in ' Almanac,' 1749. Plotia Adans. = Myrsina.
Oxford
Plukenet, Leonard (1642-1706) : b. Jan. 1642 ; d. Westminster,
6th July, 1706 ; bur. Chancel of St. Margaret's, Westminster.
M.D. Had a bot. garden at Old Palace Yard, Westminster.
Queen's botanist to Mary H. Supervisor, Hampton Court
Garden. ' Phytographia,' 1691. 'Almagestum,' 1696. 'Man-
tissa,' 1700. ' Amaltheum,' 1705. MS. in Bibl. Linn. Soc. (?).
Herbarium of 8000 plants in Herb. Sloane. Had a farm at
Horn Hill, Herts. Trans. Watford Soc. i. (1875), 23 ; Pult. ii.
18 ; Eees ; Pritz. 249 ; Jacks. 593 ; Journ. Bot. 1882, 338
Fl. Midd. 374 ; Hoefer ; Michaud. Portr. engr. Collins, 1690,
in ' Phytographia.' Plukenetia Plumier.
Pocock, Robert (1760-1830) : b. Gravesend, Kent, 21st Feb.
1760; d. Dartford, 26th Oct. 1830. Printer. Founded Nat.
Hist. Society of Kent, 1812. Plants in Herb. Mus. Brit.
' Robert Pocock,' by G. M. Arnold, 1883, with portr. ; Journ.
Bot. 1884, 53 (portr.).
Pococke, Rev. Richard (1704-1765): b. Southampton, 1704;
d. Meath, 15th Sept. 1765. B.A., Oxon, 1725. D.C.L., 1733.
F.R.S. Travelled in East, 1737-42. ' Description of the East,'
1743. Bishop of Ossory, 1756 ; of Meath, 1765. MSS. in Mus.
Brit. Rees; Nich, Anec. ii. 157; Lasegue, 409; Rose; Chal-
iTiGrs IPococldia oGr.
PoUexfen, Rev. John Hutton (fl. 1836-1883) : b. Orkney. M.D.
F.B.S.Ed., 1836. Algologist. Helped Edmonston in ' Fl.
Shetland' (1845). Journ. Bot. 1844, 431. PoUexfenia Harv.
Polwhele, Rev. Richard (1759-1838); b. Truro, 1759; d. March,
1838. Of Polwhele, Cornwall. Vicar of Manaccan, 1794-1816.
List of plants with Cornish names in ' Hist. Cornwall,' i. 164,
and iv. 125 ; 'Bot. Guide,' 194 Gent. Mag. ; 1838, i. 545.
Pool, Thomas (fl. 1095). Of Nottingham. "A diligent enquirer
into Natural History," ]\[us. Pet. no. 89.
Poole, Rev. John (c. 1771-1857) : b. Over Stowey, Somerset,
c. 1771 ;
Enmore,
d. 16th May, 1857.
Somerset, 1796; of
B.A., Oxon,
Swainswick,
1792.
1811.
Rector of
New Bot.
Guide, 553.
Portland, Margaret, Duchess of [See Harley] .
Porter, Sir Robert Ker (1780-1842): b. Durham, 1780; d. St.