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 Bunhill Fields. M.D. Edin., 1775 ; L.E.C.P., 1784. F.L.S., 1791. Physician to Small-pox Hospital, King's Cross, where he had a hot. garden. 'Medical Botany,' 1790-4 ; ed. 3, 1832. Pritz. 351 ; Jacks. 201 ; Munk, ii. 345 ; Michaud ; Hoefer. Engr. portr. by Bond, from portr. by Abbot, at Small-pox Hospital. Copy at Kew. Woodvillea DC.

Woodward, John (1665-1728) ; b. Derbyshire, 1 May, 1665; d. Gresham College, 25 April, 1728; bur. Westminster Abbey. M.D. Cantuar., 1695, and Camb., 1696. F.E.S., 1693 ; F.E.C.P., 1703. Prof. Physic, Gresham College, 1692. 'Insignis Botanicus,' Pluk. Mant. 168. ' Thoughts and experiments on vegetation,' Phil. Trans, xxi. 193. Herbarium. 'Life and letters of Sedgwick ' (1890), i. pp. 167-187, with portr. after oil-painting in Woodwardian Museum.

Woodward, Samuel Pickworth (1821-65) : b. Norwich, 17 Sept., 1821 ; d. Heme Bay, Kent, 11 July, 1865 ; bur. Highgate Cemetery. A.L.S., 1842. Prof. Nat. Hist., Cirencester. Memb. Bot. Soc. Lond., 1839. Malacologist. 'Flora of Central Norfolk,' Mag. Zool. Bot. v. (1841), 201. Herbarium and drawings at Roy. Agric. Coll., Cirencester. E. S. C. vi. 437 ; viii. 1273 ; Proc. Linn. Soc. 1865-6, Ixxxvi. ; Joum. Bot. 1865, 264 ; Trans. Norf. Nat. Soc. iii. 279, with portrait. 'Carduus Woodwardia Wats.

Woodward, Thomas Jenkinson (c. 1745-1820) : b. 1745 ? ; d. Diss, Norfolk, 28 Jan., 1820. Of Bungay. LL.B. Camb., 1769; F.L.S., 1789. 'British Fuci' (with Goodenough), 1793. Contributed to Martyn's Miller, and (largely) to Withering, ed. 2 ; also to E. Bot. 151-920. Linn. Trans, i.-iii. ; Phil. Trans. Ixxi. 222 ; lxxiv. 423. Fl. Suffolk, 481; E. S. C. vi. 438 ; Eees ; Gent. Mag. 1820, i. 189. Woodwardia Sm.

Woollgar, Thomas (fl. 1800). Of Lewes. Contrib. localities to Milne & Gordon's 'Indigenous Bot.' (pref. viii.). Borrer's "earliest assistant in botany." Studied willows, and sent them to E. Bot. 1436, 1936-7, 2651. Salix Woollgariana Borr.

Wooster, David (1824 ?-88) : d. Bayswater, Sept., 1888. Assisted J. C. Loudon in his works. 'Alpine Plants,' 1872-4. Jacks. 622 ; Gard. Chron. 1888, iv. 393.

Wootton, Edward (1492 ?-1555) : b. Oxford?, 1492?; d. London, 5 Oct., 1555 ; bur. St. Alban, Wood Street, E.G. M.A, Oxon, 1516. M.D. Padua, 1526; F.E.C.P., 1528; P.E.C.P., 1541-3. Physician to Henry VIII. W. Turner, 'Libellus'; Jacks. XXX ; Wood, Ath. Ox. i. 226 ; Munk, i. 27 ; Foster, Alumn. Oxon.

Worsley, Anna (see ).

Wright, Charles H. (fl. 1844). Of Keswick. Guide to Lakes. His daughter also collected Lake plants; but the accuracy of both was doubtful. Phyt. ii. 376, 428; E. Bot. 2893.

Wright, Francis Bowcher (fl. 1803). Of Paulton, Somerset. F.L.S., 1808. Discovered Paonia at Steep Holmes, 1803. E. Bot 1513, 1657.