     john sibthorp frs (28 october 1758 &ndash; 8 february 1796) was an english botanist. ==life== he was born in oxford, the youngest son of dr humphry sibthorp (1713&ndash;1797), who from 1747 to 1784 was sherardian professor of botany at the university of oxford. he graduated from lincoln college, oxford in 1777, and then studied medicine at the universities of edinburgh and montpellier. in 1784 he succeeded his father to the sherardian chair. leaving his professional duties to a deputy, he left england for gÃ¶ttingen and vienna, in preparation for a botanical tour of greece (1786) and cyprus (1787). returning to england at the end of the following year, he took part in the foundation of the linnean society in 1788, and set to work on a flora of oxfordshire, which was published in 1794 as flora oxoniensis. he was elected as a fellow of the royal society in mar 1788. he made a second journey to greece, but developed consumption on the way home and died in bath on 8 february 1796. he was buried at bath abbey. his will bequeathed his books on natural history and agriculture to the university of oxford, and also founded oxford's sibthorpian professorship of rural economy (subsequently titled the sibthorpian professorship of plant science). he directed that his endowment should first be applied to the publication of his flora graeca and florae graecae prodromus, for which, however, he had done little beyond collecting some 
1758_births 1796_deaths 18th-century_English_writers 18th-century_botanists Alumni_of_Lincoln_College,_Oxford Alumni_of_the_University_of_Edinburgh Botanists_with_author_abbreviations Deaths_from_tuberculosis Deaths_in_Bath,_Somerset English_botanists English_mycologists Fellows_of_the_Linnean_Society_of_London Fellows_of_the_Royal_Society Infectious_disease_deaths_in_England People_from_Oxford