Georg Dionysius Ehret
? 1710 - 1770
- Born
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30 January 1708 or 09 September 1710
Erfurt or Heidelberg, Germany
- Died
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09 September 1770
Chelsea, London
- Gender
- Male
- Date of election for Royal Society fellowship
- 19/05/1757
- Fields of Interest
- Botany
- Relationships
- Son of George Ehret, gardener to the Kurfurst of Baden-Durlach; married Susannah Kennet, daughter of a Southwark baker and sister of the wife of Philip Miller (FRS 1729); his grand-daughter Ann Grover married John Dickinson FRS (1782-1869) the paper manufacturer of Hemel Hempstead; his great-granddaughter Harriet Ann Dickinson married John Evans FRS (1823-1908): their eldest son was Sir Arthur Evans FRS, the discoverer of Knossos
- Catalogue
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Author of
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Paper, 'Of a species of Ophrys probably that names by Gronovius in the Flora Virginica' by Georg Dionysius Ehret
Creator: Georg Dionysius Ehret Reference number: L&P/4/152 -
Paper, 'Of a new Peruvian plant' by Georg Dionysius Ehret
Creator: Georg Dionysius Ehret Reference number: L&P/4/157 -
Paper, 'On andrachne' by George Dionysius Ehret
Creator: Georg Dionysius Ehret Reference number: L&P/4/370