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John Berkenhout

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visited him, and verbal fencing ensued. In the end Berkenhout was paroled, and rejoined the commissioners at New York on 19 September; but the negotiations of the Carlisle Commission were dead. He came back to England, and was rewarded with a pension for his services.
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Biographia Literaria, or a Biographical History of Literature, containing the lives of English, Scotch, and Irish authors, from the dawn of letters in these kingdoms to the present time, chronologically and classically
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for the lives of poets. Steevens in fact used the work to put into circulation one of his hoaxes, a forged letter purporting to be from
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to study languages. After spending some years in Germany he accompanied some English noblemen on a tour through Europe. On returning to
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and miscellaneous writer. He was educated as a physician at Edinburgh and Leyden. While at Edinburgh he published a botanical lexicon
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would not allow the Commission to go beyond New York; but Berkenhout managed to reach
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While a student at Edinburgh Berkenhout published in 1762 a botanical lexicon,
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A volume of letters from Dr. Berkenhout to his son at the university
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First lines of the theory and practice of philosophical chemistry
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Synopsis of the Natural History of Great Britain and Ireland
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Outlines of the Natural History of Great Britain and Ireland
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Synopsis of the Natural History of Great Britain and Ireland
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Outlines of the Natural History of Great Britain and Ireland
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Timothy Matlack, Scribe of the Declaration of Independence
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infantry regiment, where he was promoted to the rank of
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In 1778 Berkenhout was sent by the government with the
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In these works Berkenhout named the brown rat as the
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as a medical student. From Edinburgh he went to the
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Prussian military personnel of the Seven Years' War
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Treatise on Hysterical and Hypochondriacal Diseases
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"Linnecar, Richard". 689:Alumni of the University of Edinburgh 445: 443: 441: 439: 437: 435: 433: 431: 429: 427: 233:Clavis Anglica Linguæ Botanicæ Linnæi 127:he stayed with his father's relative 7: 684:18th-century English medical doctors 568:Sherbo, Arthur. "Steevens, George". 540:. Infobase Publishing. p. 236. 312:in 1784. Berkenhout's last work was 107:, the son of John Berkenhout Snr, a 68:(8 July 1726 – 3 April 1791) was an 208:Berkenhout died on 3 April 1791 at 258:'s "Dissertation on the Gout" was 103:Berkenhout was born about 1730 at 14: 343:. He translated from Swedish, as 81:Clavis Anglicae Linguae Botanicae 657:Dictionary of National Biography 636: 462:Dictionary of National Biography 383:Clavis anglica linguae botanicae 374:Clavis anglica linguae botanicae 225:Clavis anglica linguae botanicae 180:to America, quite covertly. The 134:Berkenhout became a cadet in a 306:Essay on the Bite of a Mad Dog 294:Lucubrations on Ways and Means 1: 292:In 1780 Berkenhout published 254:. In his publication (1771) 621:UK public library membership 588:UK public library membership 500:Chris Coelho (7 June 2013). 276:Berkenhout's major work was 192:, and through him contacted 111:merchant who had settled in 331:(1777), from the French of 269:("Rattus norvegicus"), not 725: 699:Medical doctors from Leeds 327:Berkenhout also published 506:. McFarland. p. 92. 361:Strictures on Freemasonry 351:'s letters to the future 300:, others subsequently by 178:Carlisle Peace Commission 27: 456:"Berkenhout, John"  302:William Pitt the Younger 537:The American Revolution 613:10.1093/ref:odnb/16739 580:10.1093/ref:odnb/26355 534:David F. Burg (2007). 407:. London: Cadell, 1788 353:Gustavus III of Sweden 228: 413:. 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Index


English
physician
naturalist
American Revolution
Leeds
Dutch
Yorkshire
Leeds Grammar School
Germany
Berlin
Baron von Bielfeld
Prussian
ensign
Seven Years' War
Edinburgh University
University of Leyden
Isleworth
Middlesex
David Elisha Davy
Bury St Edmunds
Carlisle Peace Commission
Continental Congress
Philadelphia
Arthur Lee
Richard Henry Lee
Timothy Matlack
Benjamin Rush
Besselsleigh

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