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Last Name Hopkirk

Given Name Thomas

alt. Names T. H. ;

Marriage yes

Children 1 daughter: N. N. (1xxx-1xxx)

Year born 1785 in Dalbeth, Glasgow

Year died 1841

Place of death Belfast

Father's occupation wealthy coal merchant James Hopkirk (1749-1838)

Relatives Christian Glassford (1xxx-1xxx) (mother) ; Glasgow merchant Thomas Hopkirk (1716-1781) ;

Education Glasgow University

Country of Activity Scotland, UK

Worked for Hopkirk: Flora Glottiana (1813) ; Hopkirk: Flora anomoia (1817) ;

Patronage Lady Liston (1xxx-1xxx) ; Linnean Society, founding member of Royal Botanic Institution in Glasgow ; The Glasgow Looking Glass

Collaborators James Hardie, Esq. ; engraver R. Gray ;

Techniques botanical lithography and drawing

Sample(s)

Archival sources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hopkirk ;

Published sources DNB ;

other Glasgow Botanic Gardens.

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