| LC control no. | n 92025877 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Lobb, Thomas, 1817-1894 |
| Birth date | 1817 |
| Death date | 18940430 |
| Place of birth | Egloshayle (England) |
| Place of death | Cornwall (England : County) |
| Profession or occupation | Botanists |
| Found in | The Lobb brothers, woodcarvers to the aristocracy: a study of the Cornish plant hunters, William and Thomas Lobb, 19--: 2nd leaf from added t.p., etc. (b. 1817; d. 1894 at age 76; plant collector) Wikipedia, September 26, 2014 (Thomas Lobb; Thomas Lobb (1820-1894) was a British botanist who, along with his older brother, William Lobb, collected plants for the plant nursery Veitch; Lobb worked in India, Indonesia and the Philippines; in 1845 he discovered the first orchid species of the genus Phalaenopsis growing in the eastern Himalayas; this plant, Phalaenopsis lobbii, is named in his honour; he was born and raised in Perranarworthal and Egloshayle, near Wadebridge; he died in 1894 and is buried in Devoran churchyard, Cornwall) ancestry.com, September 26, 2014 (Thomas Lobb; son of John Lobb and Jane Row; born 1817 in Egloshayle, Cornwall, England; baptized August 5, 1817 in Egloshayle, Cornwall, England; died April 30, 1894 in Devoran, Cornwall, England) |
| Associated language | eng |
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