> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 849](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33333988) of TL-2 Vol. V > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/10042-1) LSID 10042-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q946151) QID Q946151 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Staunton, Sir George Leonard (1737-1801), English physician and diplomat; practiced in the West-Indies 1762-1770, in Grenada 1772-1779; secretary to Lord Macartney in Madras 1781-1784 and in China 1792-1794; collected plants in China. **Abbreviated name**: *Staunton* \[standard form in IPNI: *Staunton*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection BM|BM]]; further material at [[Collection AWH|AWH]], [[Collection FI|FI]], [[Collection G|G]]-DC, [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection P|P]], [[Collection PH|PH]] and [[Collection W|W]]. – *Letters* in Smith corr. at [[Collection LINN|LINN]] and Banks corr. at [[Collection BM|BM]](NH). #### Bibliography and biography AG 5(1): 173; Backer p. 547; Barnhart 3: 318; BB p. 286-287; BM 5: 2005; Bret. p. 156-163, 225; Dawson p. 784; Desmond p. 581 (b. 19 Apr 1737, d. 14 Jan 1801); DNB 54: 113-114 (18: 1000-1001); Herder p. 60; Lasègue p. 159, 300, 346, 435, 503; MW p. 470; Rehder 1: 458; SK 1: 498; TL-2/see C. Abel; Tucker 1: 666. #### Biofile - Aberconway, Lord, J.R. Hort. Soc. 99: 339. 1974 (note on letter J. Banks to S.). - Allibone, S.A., Crit. dict. Engl. lit. 2: 2228. 1878. - Anon., Brit. Mus. gen. cat. print. books 228: 910-911. 1964; Cat. gén. livr. impr. Bibl. natl. 177: 445-446. 1950; Gent. Magaz. 71(1): 89-90. 1801. - Candolle, Alph. de, Phytographie 452. 1880 (coll.). - Coats, A.M., Plant hunters 91-93. 1969. - Dawson, W.R., Smith papers 89. 1934. - Hoefer, ed., Nouv. biogr. gén. 44: 448-449. 1865. - Lowden, R.M., Taxon, Index Taxon pers. names vols. 1-30. 697. 1985. - Mabberley, D.J., Taxon 32(1): 79-80. 1983. - Miller, G.S., Taxon 19: 543-544. 1970 (on chinese collections in Lambert herb.). - Murray, G., Hist. coll. BM(NH) 1: 184. 1904 (coll. BM). - Sabin, J. et al., Dict. books America 23: 273-274. 1932-1933. - Stearn, W.T., J.R. Hort. Soc. 99: 339-347. 1974 (three letters of hort. interest. from J. Banks to S.). - Verdoorn, F., ed., Chron. bot. 2: 26. 1936, 3: 12. 1937. #### Eponymy *Stauntonia* A.P. de Candolle (1817). ### Publications ##### n.12.835. An authentic account of an embassy **Title** *An authentic account of an embassy* from the King of Great Britain *to the emperor of China*; including cursory observations made, and information obtained, in travelling through that ancient empire, and a small part of Chinese Tartary. Together with a relation of the voyage undertaken on the occasion by his Majesty's ship the Lion, and the ship Hindostan, in the East India Company's service, to the Yellow Sea, and Gulf of Pekin; as well as of their return to Europe;... taken chiefly from the papers of his excellency the Earl of Macartney,... by Sir George Staunton,... London (printed by W. Bulmer and Co....) 1797. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Account embassy China*. **Notes** *Ed. 1*: 1797. *Copies*: HH, Liverpool City Libr., NSUB. *1*: Jul 1797 (Banks acknowledged receipt on 27 Jul 1797; Staunton sent a copy to J.E. Smith on 28 Jul 1797), frontisp., p. \[i\*\], \[i\]-xxxiv, \[1-2\], \[1\]-518. *2*: 1797, frontisp., p. \[i\]-xx, \[1\]-626. *Plates*: separately in folio volume *44 pl*. (in part maps). *Lists of plants*: 2: 27-276, 435-437, 524-525. *Ed. 2*(*a*): 1798, 2 vols. *Copies*: ILL, PH. – "The second edition, corrected". London (id.). 1798. – Actually a *reissue*. *1*: 1798, frontisp., p. \[i\*\], \[i\]-xxxiv, \[1\]-518. *2*: 1798, frontisp., p. \[i\]-xx, \[1\]-626. *Ed. 2*(*b*): 1798, 3 vols. *Copies*: BM, UC. – "The second edition, corrected. In three volumes..." London (printed for G. Nicol,...) 1798. *1*: 1798, p. \[i\]-xvi, \[1\]-429, map. *2*: 1798, p. \[i\]-xv, \[1\]-383, map. *3*: 1798, p. \[i\]-xvii, \[1\]-490, map. *Amer. ed.*: 1799, 2 vols. *Copy*: LC. – Philadelphia (printed for Robert Campbell,...). 1: 1799, frontisp., \[i\]-xii, xii-xv, xvii-xxiii, \[xxiv\], \[1\]-297. 2: 1799, frontisp., \[1\]-267, \[i\]-xxiv, *pl. 3-4, 6-7.* *Associated publ*.: see e.g. Brit. Mus. gen. cat. print. books 228: 910-911. 1964.