Caleb Threlkeld
British botanist
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| Intro | British botanist | |
| A.K.A. | Threlkeld | |
| A.K.A. | Threlkeld | |
| Places | United Kingdom Great Britain | |
| was | Scientist Botanist | |
| Work field | Science | |
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| Birth | 31 May 1676 | |
| Death | 28 April 1728Dublin (aged 51 years) | |
| Star sign | Gemini |
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Caleb Threlkeld (1676–1728) was an Irish botanist, dissenting cleric and physician.
He wrote the first flora of Ireland under the title Synopsis Stirpium Hibernicarum .....Dispositarum sive Commentatio de Plantis Indigenis praesertim Dublinensibus instituta which was published in Dublin in 1726. An appendix was based on botanical notes made by Thomas Molyneux.