> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 264](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33265941) of TL-2 Suppl. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/1732-1) LSID 1732-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q237271) QID Q237271 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Colebrooke, Henry Thomas|first entry]] for this author ### Author \* Colebrook \[Colebrooke\], Henry Thomas (1765-1837), British colonial magistrate, Sanskrit scholar and amateur botanist, born at London, in India 1783-1815, chief judge in Bengal, president of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, stood in cooperation with W. Roxburgh, W.J. Hooker and A.B. Lambert, died in London. **Abbreviated name**: *Colebr.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Colebr.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection K|K]] (via Hooker), [[Collection G|G]] (via Lambert). #### Bibliography and biography Backer p. 133; Barnhart 1: 365; BB p. 68-69; Bret. p. 224; CSP 2: 12-13, 6: 624; Desmond p. 140 (b. 15 Jun 1765, London, d. 10 Mar 1837, London); DNB 11: 282-286; Hortus 3: 1190; IH 2: 133; PR p. 65 (no titles); Quenstedt p. 86; Rehder 5(index): 184; TL-2/1: 522, see also TL-2/2993; Tucker 1: 164; Zander ed. 10, p. 646, ed. 11, p. 735. #### Biofile - Colebrooke, T.E., Life of Henry Thomas Colebrooke 1873. - Fournier, E., *in* H.E. Baillon, Dict. bot. 2: 118. 1880. - Miller, H.S., Taxon 19: 519. 1970 (on his collections, including those of Mauritius, q.v.). - Prain, D., Ann. Bot. Gard. Calcutta 10: xxi-xxii. 1905. - Rose, H.J., New gen. biogr. dict. 6: 399. 1850. - Whewell, W., Proc. geol. Soc. London 2: 629-630. 1838. - Woodward, H.R., The history of the Geological Society of London 67, 68. 1907.