Thomas Jenkinson Woodward (1745–1820) was an English botanist.

Life

Born 23 Feb 1745, he was a native of

Huntingdon Huntingdon is a market town in the Huntingdonshire district of Cambridgeshire, England. The town was given its town charter by John, King of England, King John in 1205. It was the county town of the historic county of Huntingdonshire. Oliver C ...

. His parents died when he was quite young, leaving him, however, financially independent. He was educated at

Eton College Eton College ( ) is a Public school (United Kingdom), public school providing boarding school, boarding education for boys aged 13–18, in the small town of Eton, Berkshire, Eton, in Berkshire, in the United Kingdom. It has educated Prime Mini ...

and

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, where he graduated LL.B. in 1769. Shortly after that he married Frances (d. 27 November 1833), the daughter and heiress of Thomas Manning of

Bungay Bungay () is a market town, civil parish and electoral ward in the East Suffolk district of Suffolk, England.OS Explorer Map OL40: The Broads: (1:25 000) : . It lies in the Waveney Valley, west of Beccles on the edge of The Broads, and at th ...

Suffolk Suffolk ( ) is a ceremonial county in the East of England and East Anglia. It is bordered by Norfolk to the north, the North Sea to the east, Essex to the south, and Cambridgeshire to the west. Ipswich is the largest settlement and the county ...

. Woodward was appointed a magistrate and deputy-lieutenant for the county of Suffolk. When he moved to Walcot Hall, Diss,

Norfolk Norfolk ( ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in England, located in East Anglia and officially part of the East of England region. It borders Lincolnshire and The Wash to the north-west, the North Sea to the north and eas ...

, he took on the same posts for that county. On the establishment of the volunteer system he became lieutenant-colonel of the Diss volunteers. Woodward was elected a fellow of the

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of London in 1789. He died at Diss on 28 January 1820, and was buried there. He left no issue.

Works

Woodward was described by Sir James Edward Smith as one of the best English botanists; and it was in his honour that Smith named the fern genus ''

Woodwardia ''Woodwardia'' is a genus of ferns in the family Blechnaceae, in the suborder Aspleniineae (eupolypods II) of the order Polypodiales. Species are known as netted-chain ferns. The genus is native to warm temperate and subtropical regions of the ...

''. He was joint-author with Samuel Goodenough of ''Observations on the British Fuci'', London, 1797, and contributed papers to the ''

Philosophical Transactions ''Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'' is a scientific journal published by the Royal Society. In its earliest days, it was a private venture of the Royal Society's secretary. It was established in 1665, making it the second journ ...

'' and the ''Transactions of the Linnean Society of London'' between 1784 and 1794, on

fungi A fungus (: fungi , , , or ; or funguses) is any member of the group of eukaryotic organisms that includes microorganisms such as yeasts and mold (fungus), molds, as well as the more familiar mushrooms. These organisms are classified as one ...

and

algæ Algae ( , ; : alga ) is an informal term for any organisms of a large and diverse group of photosynthetic organisms that are not plants, and includes species from multiple distinct clades. Such organisms range from unicellular microalgae, suc ...

. He also furnished information to Smith for

James Sowerby James Sowerby (21 March 1757 – 25 October 1822) was an English natural history, naturalist, illustrator and mineralogist. Contributions to published works, such as ''A Specimen of the Botany of New Holland'' or ''English Botany'', include his ...

's ''English Botany'', and to

William Withering William Withering Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS (17 March 1741 – 6 October 1799) was an English botanist, geologist, chemist, physician and first systematic investigator of the bioactivity of digitalis. Withering was born in Wellington, S ...

for the second edition of his ''Systematic Arrangement of British Plants'', as well as to Thomas Martyn for his edition of

Philip Miller Philip Miller Royal Society, FRS (1691 – 18 December 1771) was an English botany, botanist and gardener of Scottish descent. Miller was chief gardener at the Chelsea Physic Garden for nearly 50 years from 1722, and wrote the highly popular ...

's ''Gardeners' Dictionary''.

References

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;Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Woodward, Thomas Jenkinson 1745 births 1820 deaths 18th-century British botanists People educated at Eton College Deputy lieutenants of Suffolk Deputy lieutenants of Norfolk People from Huntingdon People from Diss, Norfolk 19th-century British botanists