Benjamin Daydon Jackson (1846–1927)

Botanist and botanical bibliographer. Editor of Index Kewensis, 1893–5; co-editor of its supplement, 1901–6. Biographer of George Bentham and translator of a biography of Linnaeus, upon whose work and collections he was an authority. Botanical secretary, Linnean Society of London, 1880–1902; general secretary, 1902–26.