Profile – Robert John Thornton (1768-1837)
Portrait of Robert John Thornton MD. Artist: John Russell (March 29, 1745 – April 20, 1806)
Born: 1768
Died: 1837, his house on Howland Street
Father: Bonnell Thornton, writer
Occupation: Doctor, writer and lecturer on Botany at Guy’s Hospital.
“Botany indeed should particularly enter into the education of Princes; then they would see, that each country has its peculiar productions, and the obligations nations stand in to different climes, connected together by reciprocal wants, and knit to each other by the blessings of commerce; then they would learn to respect other countries, and make a garden, not a wilderness, of this world; a delightful pursuit would engage their attention; wars would cease from the earth, and peace with happiness reign perpetual.”
Robert John Thornton, M.D. as published in Elements of Botany (1812)
Thornton’s Temple of Flora includes the work of the following artists:
Robert John Thornton (1768-1837)
Peter Charles Henderson (died 1829)
Philip Reinagle (1749-1833)
Abraham Pether (1756 – 13 April 1812)
John Russell (March 29, 1745 – April 20, 1806)
Sydenham Edwards (1768 – 8 February 1819)
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