John Stevens Henslow

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academic botanist clergyman geologist human university teacher

John Stevens Henslow was a 19th-century English clergyman, botanist, and geologist best known as Charles Darwin’s mentor and a pioneering botanical educator.

Aliases (2)

Henslow ×1
Sir John Henslow ×1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	academic → botanist → clergyman → geologist → human → university teacher →
areaOfActivity	Cambridge, England → Hitcham, Suffolk →
birthDate	1796-02-06 →
birthPlace	Rochester, Kent, England →
botanicalAuthorAbbreviation	Hensl. →
centuryOfActivity	19th century →
clergyOf	Church of England →
countryOfCitizenship	United Kingdom →
deathDate	1861-05-16 →
deathPlace	Hitcham, Suffolk, England →
educatedAt	St John’s College, Cambridge NERFINISHED →
employer	University of Cambridge NERFINISHED →
familyName	Henslow →
fieldOfWork	botany → geology → natural history →
givenName	John →
honorificSuffix	FRS →
influenced	Charles Darwin →
knownFor	innovative teaching methods in botany → mentoring Charles Darwin → pioneering botanical education → promoting field-based botanical study →
languageOfWorkOrName	English →
memberOf	Royal Society →
name	John Stevens Henslow →
nationality	English →
notableStudent	Charles Darwin →
occupation	botanist → clergyman → geologist → university professor →
positionHeld	Professor of Botany at the University of Cambridge → Professor of Mineralogy at the University of Cambridge → Rector of Hitcham, Suffolk →
publication	A Catalogue of British Plants → Principles of Descriptive and Physiological Botany →
relative	Leonard Jenyns →
religion	Anglicanism →
spouse	Harriet Jenyns →
studiedUnder	Adam Sedgwick →
taught	Charles Darwin →

Referenced by (4)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
HMS Orion ("Sir John Henslow") →	designedBy
John Stevens Henslow ("Henslow") →	familyName
Cambridge University Botanic Garden →	founder
John Stevens Henslow →	name