| LC control no. | no2013096543 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Titford, William Jowett, 1784-1823 or 1827 |
| Variant(s) | Titford, W. J. (William Jowett), 1784-1823 or 1827 Titford, William Jowit, 1784-1823 or 1827 Titford, William Jowett, 1784-approxiamtely 1823 |
| Located | London, England New York, N.Y. Jamaica |
| Birth date | 17840513 |
| Death date | [1823,1827] |
| Place of birth | Jamaica |
| Field of activity | Accounting Botany Medicine Natural history |
| Affiliation | Cotes, Titford and Brookes, London, England Society for the Encouragement of the Arts Manufactures and Commerce College of Physicians and Surgeons in the City of New York |
| Profession or occupation | Accountant Author Naturalist |
| Found in | Sketches towards a hortus botanicus americanus, 1811 : title page (by W.J. Titford, M.D., corresponding member of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, &c.) Sketches towards a hortus botanicus americanus, 1811, via WWW WorldCat citation, February 20, 2013 (author: Titford, William Jowit; born 1784; died 1823?) Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History, volume 8, 2012, via WWW, February 20, 2013 (William Jowett Titford; born 1784; died 1823 or 1827; resided Spanish Town, Jamaica) Adventures of Isaac Titford, 2007, via WWW, February 20, 2013 (William Jowett Titford; son of Isaac Titford, resident of Jamaica where he owned a plantation; William sorted out affairs of his father from London) Biographical study of William Jowett Titford (1784-1823/27) and "Sketches towards a Hortus Botanicus Americanus" in Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History, volume 8, 1977 : page 121, etc. (William Jowett Titford; born Jamaica 13 May 1784; educated Enfield, Middlesex, England, 1790-1798; worked as accountant for Cotes, Titford and Brookes, silk manufacturers, 1 Union Street, London; 1802-1822 travel between Jamaica, America, England; 1804 in Jamaica begins drawing trees and flowers because of scarcity of books dealing with plants of West Indies; 1806 elected member of Society for the Encouragement of the Arts Manufactures and Commerce; 1809-1810 student at Columbia College, School of Medicine, New York City; final correspondence in 1823 from Kingston, Jamaica, states he will leave Jamaica due to his ill health) |
| Associated language | eng |
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