John Lightfoot (biologist)

John Lightfoot ( born December 9, 1735 in Newent, Gloucestershire, England; † February 18, 1788 in Uxbridge, Middlesex, England ) was a British clergyman and biologist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Lightf. ".

Life and work

John Lightfoot was a clergyman, zoologist and botanist. He lived in Bulstock, Buckinghamshire, later in Uxbridge, Middlesex. He published a Flora Scotica: or, A systematic arrangement, in the Linnaean method, of the native plants of Scotland and the Hebrides in 1777 in 2 volumes, published in 2nd edition, 1789.

His name as a botanist is in the genus Lightfootia L' Hér. from the family of the bellflower family ( Campanulaceae ) immortalized, which was later renamed in Wahlenbergia.