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Charles Knight (doctor)

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at Kew for over 30 years. He also contributed specimens and drawings to the collections there and in other countries as well as in New Zealand. In addition, he organised New Zealand government funding for Hooker to write the
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published in 1864. During 1868 and 1869 Knight was in Britain with Grey, and was able to spend time with the botanists and lichen collections at Kew. He was elected a fellow of the
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Handbook of the New Zealand Flora A Systematic Description of the Native Plants of New Zealand and the Chatham, Kermadec's, Lord Auckland's, Campbell's, and Macquarrie's Islands
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as a clerk. Knight moved with Grey when the latter was appointed Governor of New Zealand. In February 1846 Knight was appointed as the country's inaugural
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and civil servant employment conditions. He later re-organised the postal banking system. In New Zealand, Knight first lived in
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1808. He studied medicine at University College, London from 1828 until 1830. In 1840 he became a Member of the
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and then auditor of public accounts and chaired many official commissions into subjects as diverse as
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and a Fellow in 1869. Between 1830 and 1840 Knight worked as a doctor and spent time in America.
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1808 – 3 September 1891) was a New Zealand doctor, public servant and botanist. He was born in
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in 1869 and was president in 1873 and 1874. He was a member of the board of governors of the
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British born New Zealand doctor, public servant, botanist and mycologist
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Knight married Caroline Symes in 1844 when he was living in
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Knight's extensive personal collection of specimens is in
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In 1841 he sailed to Australia as ship's surgeon on the
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This biography related to medicine in New Zealand is a
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Royal College of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland
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Knight was a keen botanist and his main interest was
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Rye
Sussex
Wellington
New Zealand
Bolton Street Memorial Park
Philip Levi
Rye
Sussex
Royal College of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland
George Grey
auditor-general
Colonial Bank of Issue
flax
meteorology
Auckland
Wellington
new capital
lichens
Joseph Hooker
Royal Botanic Garden
Linnean Society of London
Wellington Philosophical Society
New Zealand Institute
Adelaide
Bolton Street Memorial Park
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
herbaria
"England Births and Christenings, 1538–1975," database, FamilySearch (30 December 2014, Charles Knight, 14 Jul 1808); citing Rye, Sussex, England, index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 1,067,289.

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