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### Author
Fothergill, John (1712-1780), British physician and botanist
**Abbreviated name**: *Fothergill* \[standard form in IPNI: *Foth.*\]
#### Herbarium and types
Material from his garden at Upton, West Ham, at [[Collection BM|BM]] and [[Collection LINN|LINN]].
*Ref*.: IH 2: 205.
#### Bibliography and biography
AG 3: 356; Barnhart 1: 562; BB p. 114; DNB 20: 66.
- Elliot, J., A complete collection of the... works of John Fothergill. London 1782, vii, xx, 761 p.
- Lettsom, The works of John Fothergill, 3 vols., London 1784 (also in Lettsom, Memoir of John Fothergill, ed. 4, London 1786) (*Copy*: Ewan).
- Darlington, Memorials 333, 495. 1849.
- Harshberger, Bot. Philadelphia 5, 86. 1899.
- Milner, Cat. Portr. Kew 46. 1906.
- Britten and Boulger, J. Bot. 52: 319, 320, 323. 1914.
- Hingston Fox, Dr. John Fothergill and his friends, London 1919.
- Britten, J. Bot. 58: 56-59. 1920.
- Fagin, William Bartram 222 \[index\]. 1933.
- Earnest, J. and W. Bartram 184 \[index\]. 1940.
- Curtis, William Curtis 137 \[index\]. 1941.
- Corner and Booth, Chain of friendship, selected letters of Dr. John Fothergill of London, 1735-1780. With introduction and notes by Betsy C. Corner and Christopher C. Booth. Cambridge, Mass. 1971 (portr.)
- Smit, History of the life sciences. Amsterdam 1974, p. 928.
- Slee, Essex Countryside 22(208): 30-32, 22(209): 33-35. 1974 (n.v.).
#### Eponymy
*Fothergilla* J. A. Murray (1774).