John Gilbert Baker
{{Short description|British botanist (1834–1920)}}
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| name = John Gilbert Baker
| honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|FRS}}
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| birth_date = 13 January 1834
| birth_place = Guisborough
| death_date = 16 August 1920 (aged 86)
| death_place = Kew{{cite journal |last=Britten |first=James |editor-last=Britten |editor-first=James |title=John Gilbert Baker (1834–1928) |journal=The Journal of Botany, British and Foreign |volume=58 |issue= |publisher=Taylor and Francis |location=London |date=1920 |pages=233–238 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/33758#page/285/mode/1up |via=BHL |access-date=18 July 2022 |archive-date=18 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220718225000/https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/33758#page/285/mode/1up |url-status=live }}
| nationality = English
| education = Quaker schools
Ackworth School
Bootham School
| occupation = Botanist
| author_abbrev_bot = Baker
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John Gilbert Baker {{post-nominals|FRS}} (13 January 1834 – 16 August 1920) was an English botanist. His son was the botanist Edmund Gilbert Baker (1864–1949).
Biography
Baker was born in Guisborough in North Yorkshire, the son of John and Mary (née Gilbert) Baker, and died in Kew.
He was educated at Quaker schools at Ackworth School and Bootham School,{{cite book|title=Bootham School Register|place=York, England|publisher=BOSA|first=Jenny | last=Woodland |year=2011}}{{cite ODNB|id=38296|title=Baker, John Gilbert|first=Ray|last=Desmond}} York.
He then worked at the library and herbarium of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew between 1866 and 1899, and was keeper of the herbarium from 1890 to 1899. He wrote handbooks on many plant groups, including Amaryllidaceae, Bromeliaceae, Iridaceae, Liliaceae, and ferns. His published works include [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009083711 Flora of Mauritius and the Seychelles] (1877) and Handbook of the Irideae (1892). Baker issued several exsiccata-like series, among others the series Herbarium of British Roses [Herbarium Rosarum Britannicarum].Triebel, D. & Scholz, P. 2001–2024 IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae. – Botanische Staatssammlung München: http://indexs.botanischestaatssammlung.de. – München, Germany.{{Cite web |title=Herbarium of British Roses [Herbarium Rosarum Britannicarum]: IndExs ExsiccataID=912703744 |website=IndExs - Index of Exsiccatae |publisher=Botanische Staatssammlung München |url=http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=912703744 |access-date=2 October 2024}}
He married Hannah Unthank in 1860.{{cite magazine|title=Baker, John Gilbert|magazine=Who's Who|year=1919|page=100|url=http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015047639912;view=1up;seq=142|access-date=9 September 2015|archive-date=26 May 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240526160634/https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/imgsrv/html?id=mdp.39015047639912&seq=145|url-status=live}} Their son Edmund was one of twins, and his twin brother died before 1887.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/results?firstName=hannah&lastName=unthank|title=Hannah Unthank Individual Records - Ancestry®|website=www.ancestry.com|access-date=26 May 2024|archive-date=26 May 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240526160627/https://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/results?firstName=hannah&lastName=unthank|url-status=live}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pwUqAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA85|title=List of Members of the Quarterly Meeting of London & Middlesex|year=1886|location=London|publisher=Society of Friends|page=85|access-date=9 September 2015|archive-date=26 May 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240526160610/https://books.google.com/books?id=pwUqAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA85#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}
John G. Baker was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1878.{{cite web|url=http://www2.royalsociety.org/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=5&dsqSearch=%28Surname%3D%27baker%27%29| title= Library and Archive Catalogue| publisher= Royal Society| access-date= 30 January 2011}}{{Dead link|date=February 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} He was awarded the Veitch Memorial Medal of the Royal Horticultural Society in 1907.
Taxa named in honour
Several plant species with the epithet bakeriana or bakeranius and bakeranium have been named in honour of John G. Baker.Dr Ross Bayton {{google books|D0ipDwAAQBAJ|RHS Gardener’s Botanical: An Encyclopedia of Latin Plant Names (2019)|page=55}}
Including;
Selected publications
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- {{cite journal|last=Baker|first=J. G.|author-link=John Gilbert Baker|title=Revision of the Genera and Species of Tulipeae|journal=Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society|year=1874|volume=xiv|issue=76|pages=211–310|doi=10.1111/j.1095-8339.1874.tb00314.x|url=https://zenodo.org/record/1432971}}
- {{cite journal |last1=Baker |first1=John Gilbert|author-link=John Gilbert Baker |title=A Classified Synonymic List of all the Known Crocuses, with their Native Countries, and References to the Works where they are Figured|journal=Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society of London|date=1874 |volume=4 |issue=14|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/152500#page/129/mode/1up|pages=111–119 }}
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References
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External links
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- {{Cite web |url=http://www.beardlessiris.org/reviews/handbook_of_the_iridae__baker.pdf |title= Handbook of the Irideae by J G Baker (1892) |access-date=5 November 2017 |archive-date=27 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200927195253/http://www.beardlessiris.org/reviews/handbook_of_the_iridae__baker.pdf |url-status=live }}
- {{cite web |url=https://archive.org/stream/naturalist1907west#page/n19/mode/2up | title=The naturalist | date=26 May 1864 }}
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Category:People from Guisborough
Category:People educated at Ackworth School
Category:People educated at Bootham School
Category:Fellows of the Royal Society
Category:Fellows of the Linnean Society of London
Category:Victoria Medal of Honour recipients