> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 577](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33333716) of TL-2 Vol. V > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/9605-1) LSID 9605-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3143271) QID Q3143271 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Sibthorp, Humphrey Waldo (1713-1797), British botanist; MA Oxford 1737, MD 1745; professor of botany Oxford 1747-1783; father of John Sibthorp; correspondent of Linnaeus. **Abbreviated name**: *H. Sibth.* \[standard form in IPNI: *H.Sibth.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection OXF|OXF]]; Some further material in [[Collection LINN|LINN]]; manuscripts at [[Collection OXF|OXF]]. – *Letters* at [[Collection G|G]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 275; BB p. 275; Bossert p. 366; Clokie p. 36-37, 243 (few specimens); Dawson p. 752; Desmond p. 558 (d. 12 Aug 1797); DNB 52: 189; Henrey 2: 72, 158, 256, 271, 637-638. #### Biofile - Allen, D.E., The naturalist in Britain 16, 17. 1976. - Berkeley, E. and D.S., Dr. John Mitchell 133. 1974. - Bridson, G.D.R. et al., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. isl. 436 \[index\]. 1980. - Cameron, H.C., Sir Joseph Banks 2, 3, 55. 1952. - Darlington, W., Mem. J. Bartram and H. Marshall 428-429. 1849 ("he did much more for the science, by raising up a son... to cultivate it, than by any writings or investigations of his own"; letter to Bartram). - Druce, G.C., Fl. Oxfordshire xc. 1927. - Earnest, E., John and William Bartram 41, 74. 1940. - Fries, Th.M., Bref Skrifv. Linné 1(3): 210. 1909, 1(4): 135, 256. 1910. - Hulth, J.M., Bref Skrifv. Linné 2(1): 101, 103. 1916. - Jackson, B.D., Proc. Linn. Soc. 134 (suppl.): 19. 1922 (pl. LINN). - Lyte, C., Sir Joseph Banks 16, 38. 1980. - Rix, M., The art of the botanist 89, 92. 1981. - Smith, E., Life Joseph Banks 7, 8. 1911. - Smith, J.E., *in* Rees Cycl. 32: Sibthorpia 1819 ("he is said to have delivered but a single lecture in all that time \[40 yrs\], which was not a successful one, nor do we know of having enriched the science with any publication... However, imperfect his claims to botanical celebrity, his son has conferred more honour on the above name than either of them could derive from it..."). #### Handwriting Candollea 33: 389-390. 1978. #### Eponymy *Sibthorpia* Linnaeus (1753).