Lightfoot, John, 1735-1788

found: Bowden, J.K. John Lightfoot, his work and travels, 1989:t.p. (John Lightfoot) pref. (b. 1735; d. 1788)

found: Flora Scotica, or, A systematic arrangement in the Linnaean method of the native plants of Scotland and the Hebrides, 1777:t.p. (by John Lightfoot, A.M. Rector of Gotham in Notthinghamshire, and chaplain to the Duchess Dowager of Portland)

found: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online, viewed 17 October 2016(Lightfoot, John (1735-1788), Church of England clergyman and naturalist; born 9 December 1735 at Newent in Gloucestershire; married on 10 November 1780 to Matilda Raynes (b. 1759/60); Lightfoot devoted his life to the study of natural history, focusing on the British flora, ornithology, and conchology; educated at the Crypt School in Gloucester, he entered Pembroke College, Oxford, in 1753 to study for the church; he obtained his BA in 1756; his first appointment was as perpetual curate and lecturer at Colnbrook, Middlesex; he lived in the Lecturer's House in Uxbridge for the rest of his life; he also held the living of Shalden, near Alton, in Hampshire (1765-77); he became chaplain to the dowager duchess of Portland, Margaret Cavendish-Bentinck, in 1767, soon after proceeding MA; Lightfoot wrote Flora Scotica, published 22 September 1777; after the dowager duchess of Portland died in 1785 Lightfoot was commissioned to compile a catalogue of the Portland Museum; he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1781; Lightfoot died 21 February 1788)