Philibert Collet ( 1643 - 1718 )

Birth: Chatillon-les-Dombes, France (26 February 1643) Death: Chatillon-les-Dombes, France (30 March 1718) Research Field: Botany Education: Jesuit College in Lyon; Valence (admitted 1668) Career: Entered the Society of Jesus at Avignon; taught literature at the Jesuit Schools of Dole and Roanne; took his final vows (1663); after the death of his elder brother, he fled to England and subsequently left the order (1668); Mayor of Chatillon (1670); rebuilt the town after a fire; Attorney General to the Parlement des Dombes at Lyon (1673-1693); Counsellor at the Presidial court (1693); engaged in numerous law suits; secretly buried a body in the family vault and when this was discovered assaulted the parish priest and was excommunicated (1681), after which he became strongly anticlerical; proposed a system of botanical classification based on leaf shape Membership: Fellow Election Date: 30/11/1711 Proposers: Benjamin or Joseph Morland.