Benjamin Daydon Jackson
{{Short description|British botanist}}
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|birth_date = {{birth date|1846|4|3|df=y}}
|birth_place = London, England
|death_date = {{death date and age|1927|10|12|1846|4|3|df=yes}}
|death_place = London, England
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Benjamin Daydon Jackson (3 April 1846 – 12 October 1927) was a pioneering botanist and taxonomer who wrote the first volume of Index Kewensis to include all the flowering plants.{{cite book
| last = Durand
| first = Théophile
|author2=Benjamin Daydon Jackson |author3=William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |author3-link=William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |author4=David Prain |author4-link=David Prain |author5=Arthur William Hill |author6=Edward James Salisbury |author6-link=Edward James Salisbury | title = Index Kewensis plantarum phanerogamarum: Supplementum Tertium Nomina et Synonyma Omnium Generum et Specierum AB Initio Anni MDCCCCI Usque AD Finem Anni MDCCCCV Complectens
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=BRMDAAAAYAAJ
| accessdate = 2008-05-27
| edition = suppl.3 (1901-1905)
| date = 1908
| publisher = Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
}}
Biography
Jackson was the eldest child of Benjamin Daydon Jackson (c.1806-1855) and Elizabeth Gaze (b.c.1815),[http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/cgi/search.pl?start=1845&end=1845&sq=3&eq=3&type=Marriages&vol=4&pgno=548&jsexec=1&mono=0&v=MTIyOTU4NTg4ODo3OGRjNDgxZjU4YTBkNDMxZTc0Mjc5YWE4ZTVhNWQyY2UwZWNkNGVl&searchdef=given%3Dbenjamin%2520daydon%26db%3Dbmd_1228212042%26type%3DAll%2520Types%26sq%3D1%26v%3DMTIyOTU4NTg2MjowODFkYTA1NDQ1YzQwNWI0N2IxZDdlYzllMDE4NDAwNGY3MDM5ZjEz%26eq%3D4%26surname%3Djackson&action=Find English 1845 Marriage Registration, B.D. Jackson senior and Elizabeth Gaze]1851 England Census, Class: HO107; Piece: 1558; Folio: 53; Page: 17; GSU roll: 174791. born in London and educated at private schools. He is perhaps best known as the compiler of Index Kewensis, a reference book which appeared from 1893 to 1895, and was once accepted as authority throughout the world for names of flowering plants. In 1880 he was elected secretary of the Linnaean Society.{{Cite NIE|wstitle=Jackson, Benjamin Daydon|year=1905}}
Works
Besides the Index Kewensis, he wrote:
- Guide to the Literature of Botany (1881)
- Vegetable Technology (1882)
- Glossary of Botanical Terms (1900)
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- [http://www.ipni.org/ipni/idAuthorSearch.do?id=4362-1&back_page=%2Fipni%2FeditAdvAuthorSearch.do%3Ffind_abbreviation%3D%26find_surname%3DJackson%26find_isoCountry%3D%26find_forename%3D%26output_format%3Dnormal Jackson, Benjamin Daydon (1846-1927)] at International Plant Names Index
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