James Donn

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Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox scientist James Donn (1758–1813) was an English botanist and gardener.<ref name=Oxford>Template:Cite ODNB</ref> He was trained by William Aiton, a protege of Sir Joseph Banks and was Curator of the Cambridge University Botanic Garden, Cambridge, from 1790 until his death.<ref name=BCMG>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=Walters>Template:Cite book</ref> His most important work was Hortus Cantabrigiensis, first published in 1796 but with several later, much expanded, editions. It carried on past his death until 1845.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

A copy was given to the Library of the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University in 1895.<ref>James DonnTemplate:Google books</ref>

He became a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1812.<ref name="Oxford" />

A memorial to James Donn, exists on St Edward the Martyr's church in Cambridge.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

A grandson was the English composer William Sterndale Bennett.<ref name="BCMG" /><ref>Sterndale Bennett, JR "The Life of Sterndale Bennett" pp5&46. Cambridge University Press 1907</ref>

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