Richard Relhan
Richard Relhan (1754–1823) was a botanist, a fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and author of a renowned book about the plants around Cambridge. Relhan, the son of Dr. Anthony Relhan, was born at Dublin in 1754. He was elected a King's Scholar at Westminster School in 1767, and was admitted a scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge, on 7 May 1773. He graduated B.A. in 1776 and M.A. in 1779, and, having taken holy orders, was chosen in 1781 fellow and conduct (or chaplain) of King's College, Cambridge. In 1783 Professor Thomas Martyn (1735–1825) gave Relhan  all the manuscript notes he had made on Cambridge plants since the publication of his "Plantae Cantabrigienses" in 1763. With this assistance Relhan published his chief work, the "Flora Cantabrigiensis" in 1785, de scribing several new plants and including seven plates engraved by James Sowerby. It appears from his letters that he proposed to issue a "'Flora Anglica", but did not meet with sufficient encouragement. He published supplements to the "Flora Cantabrigiensis" in 1787, 1788, and 1793, and second and third editions of the whole in 1802 and 1820, the last edition being greatly amplified. In 1787 he printed "Heads  of Lectures on Botany read in the University of Cambridge". Relhan was made a fellow of the Royal Society on 12 June 1787, As a botanist he showed most originality in dealing with the Cryptogamia. His name was commemorated by L'Heritier in a genus, Relhania, comprising a few species of South African Composite. Many fungi were named by Richard Relhan. Relhan was also a talented painter. There is a watercolor painted by him of the Barnwell Leper Chapel, the oldest complete building in Cambridge.