William Herbert, dean of Manchester
1778–1847
Naturalist, classical scholar, linguist, and clergyman. Noted for his work on plant hybridisation. Rector of Spofforth, Yorkshire, 1814–40. Dean of Manchester, 1840–7.
Sources
DSB
ODNB.
Bibliography
DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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