James Petiver ( c1663 - 1718 )

Birth: Hillmorton, near Rugby, Warwickshire, England, Europe (1663) Death: Aldersgate Street, London, England, Europe (2 April 1718) Burial: Chancel of St Botolph's Church, Aldersgate Street, London, England, Europe (10 April 1718) Occupation: Apothecary Research Field: Botany; entomology Education: Rugby School; apprenticed to Charles Feltham, apothecary to St Bartholomew's Hospital, London; University of Leyden (1711) Career: Practised in London; corresponded with John Ray (FRS 1667) and many other naturalists; made a collection of several thousand plants; Apothecary to the Charterhouse (1700-1718); helped initiate 'The Monthly Miscellany; or, Memoirs for the Curious' (1707); Demonstrator of Plants to the Society of Apothecaries (1709); purchased Dr Hermann's museum in Leyden for Sir Hans Sloane (FRS 1685) (1711); Sloane purchased his collections of specimens, books and manuscripts after his death and they are now in the British Museum Membership: Fellow Election Date: 27/11/1695 Council: 1702-1709 (with intermittent breaks); 1716-1717 Other RSActivity: Presented findings as well as correspondence on natural history to the Society (1690s).