Samuel Doody
(1656–1706)

English botanist, apothecary and gardener; won renown as an expert on plants, especially mosses, fungi and other non-flowering plants; prepared a work on mosses, though it was never published; a draft is in the Sloane collection of manuscripts at the British Library.

Works

Works about Doody

  • The appendix to the second edition of John Ray’s Synopsis methodica Stirpium Brittanicorum (1696) contains a list of plants discovered by Doody.
  • "Samuel Doody" in Sinker, Robert (1897) Biographical Notes on the Librarians of Trinity College:38–39
  • "Doody, Samuel," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.


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