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James Ebenezer Bicheno

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Main page James Ebenezer Bicheno (25 January 1785 – 25 February 1851) was a British author
James Ebenezer Bicheno
Contents and colonial official.
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Current events Bicheno was born in Newbury, Berkshire,[1] the son of the Rev. James Bicheno, who was
Random article minister of the Baptist Church there. He was called to the bar in 1822 but seems to have
Donate to Wikipedia spent most of his time until 1832 in writing and natural history pursuits, especially with the
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Interaction In 1832 he left London to live at Ty Maen, South Cornelly, Glamorgan, where he had been
Help one of the founders of the Maesteg Ironworks in 1826.[3] and where he was a friend of
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During his years in south Wales Bicheno held conservative views at a time of considerable
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social and economic change. He was certainly anti-Chartist as his correspondence with the
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Marquis of Bute, the Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan, clearly shows. He was ever vigilant
Newbury, Berkshire, England
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Died 25 February 1851 (aged 66)
the Marquis.[5]
Hobart Town, Van Diemen's Land
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Special pages He was appointed colonial secretary of Van Diemen's Land in September 1842. He was a Nationality British
Permanent link keen amateur botanist and experimented with plants on his small farm on the banks of the Scientific career
Page information New Town Rivulet. He had several papers on botany and natural history published in its Fields Botanist
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of Ornithology (Edinburgh, 1830). He lectured on botany to the Mechanics' Institute and had papers published in the Transactions of the
Print/export Royal Society of Tasmania.

Create a book Bicheno was a large man, and it was said that he could fit three full bags of wheat in his trousers.[6][7]
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Commemoration [ edit ]
In other projects Bicheno, a town on the east coast of Tasmania, Australia was named after him.
Wikisource Bicheno's finch (Taeniopygia bichenovii) was named to commemorate him.

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Français 1. ^ "Prison reformer's life to be spotlighted at library's bilingual talk", Bridgend Post, 1 March 2001
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2. ^ "Library and Archive Catalogue" . Royal Society. Retrieved 13 December 2010.
3. ^ "The Iron Industry in Maesteg 1828-1885 by David Lewis" . Scribd.com. Retrieved 2012-06-12.
4. ^ "Australian Dictionary of Biography" . Anbg.gov.au. 2011-06-16. Retrieved 2012-06-12.
5. ^ Letters of James Bicheno to the Marquess of Bute 1840, National Library of Wales, Bute Estate 2, L83/411,471
6. ^ "Bicheno" . SMH. Retrieved 2012-06-12.
7. ^ "Bicheno" . Walkabout. Archived from the original on 24 July 2008. Retrieved 2012-06-12.

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WorldCat Identities · Botanist: Bicheno · GND: 117590339 · ISNI: 0000 0000 6318 4768 · LCCN: n87895045 ·
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Categories: 1785 births 1851 deaths People from Newbury, Berkshire Colonial Secretaries of Tasmania Australian botanists
English botanists Fellows of the Linnean Society of London Fellows of the Royal Society

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