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George Beauchamp Knowles (1790-1862) was a British botanist, professor at the Royal School of Medicine, Birmingham, who worked closely with Frederic Westcott on the taxonomy of orchids.
MRCS and FLS Corresponding Memmber of the Medico Botanical Society. Professor of Birmingham Royal School of Medicine (source from frontispiece of Knowles & Westacott) (Westacott was Hon Secretary of the Birminhgham Botanical and Horticultural Society) Source frontispiece of their book.
All identifications and classifications of new species performed with the Frederic Westcott .
119 taxa named with Frederic Westcott.
The Floral Cabinet and Magazine of Exotic Botany Wikimedia https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:The_floral_cabinet_and_magazine_of_exotic_botany
Quarto monthly publication, sold at 2s 6d, and first issue was sheduled to appear on 1 August 1836. SOURCE: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Pac8AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA448&lpg=PA448&dq=Birmingham+Botanical+and+Horticultural+Society+knowles&source=bl&ots=lAKNyrdPha&sig=awO-axu_1aviixPoM2BABJYYiUA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CEIQ6AEwCWoVChMIkt7Uz5XcyAIVg0QUCh2LVQhF#v=onepage&q=Birmingham%20Botanical%20and%20Horticultural%20Society%20knowles&f=false
Highly collectable:
Birmingham Bot and Hort Soc
Worth contacting, as nothing in hostory online:
Honours
He appears to have been honoured in the naming of the genus, Knowlesia Hassk., although this is now regarded as a synonym of Tradescantia rupius
Surgeon
(Source: Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online) Oriingal text(needs rewriting: Was for many years in general practice at 81 Caroline Street, Birmingham. He was at one time Surgeon to the Queen's Hospital and Professor of Botany and Materia Medics at the Queen's College, Birmingham. In the fifties he practised in St Paul's Square, Birmingham, and was in partnership with Walter Jauncey, LRCS Edin. He died, it appears, before March 30th, 1867, but had retired by 1866. Publications: "Successful Case of Caesarean Operation." - Trans Prov Med and Surg Assoc, 1836, iv, 376. "Gastro-hysterotomy" in Costello's Cyclopedia of Practical Surgery, 1861, ii, 412. "Clinical Lecture on Hernia. " - Prov Med Jour, 1849, 701. Joint-editor of The Floral Cabinet, 3 vols, 4to. THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND Created: 14 June 2012
List of fellows is truncated by paywall action. GBK would appear to be listed on the absent pages: *http://www.jstor.org/stable/25492567?seq=1##page_scan_tab_contents
Dictionary of British and Irish Botanists Desmond https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=thmPzIltAV8C&pg=PA407&lpg=PA407&dq=George+Beauchamp+Knowles+professor+of+botany+birmingham&source=bl&ots=9Gq3iOedJ-&sig=2a9JvYsFXIy_ZN7XuqVRlZsr4GQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAWoVChMI8IrO0u_ayAIVhlcUCh0YNQdq#v=onepage&q=George%20Beauchamp%20Knowles%20professor%20of%20botany%20birmingham&f=false
British Association for the Advancement of Science 1868 List of members
Earliest use of anaesthetics in Birmingham -
Birmingham was busy, and the introduction of anaesthesia was not a priority. The first use of et her for surgical anaesthesia in Birmingham was reported in the Birmingham Journal of 161 h January 1847, the operation having taken place the previous day. .This was not treated as the most important news of the day, gaining only the foot of a column. The anaesthetic was given by Professor Samuel Langston Parker. He was one of the first group of 300 members elected to the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1843. He approached the new subject in an academic manner. Before he administered ether for surgery he carried out two experimental trials of ether on the patient. He found it 'produced complete temporary insensibility'. The patient was Mary Ann Chambers, age 22 years, for amputation of the foot. The surgeon was Professor George Beauchamp Knowles, who had also received his FRCS in 1843. Professor Parker used a modification of Robinson's apparatus. In the middle of the operation when the foot had been cut off, the patient was deliberately awakened and questioned as to whether she hbd felt pain. When the required information had been obtained she was anaesthetised again and the flaps of the amputation stump sutured. Was this the first professorial anaesthetic?
Transactions of the Provincial and Medical Association 1838 List of members p 600
The London Medical Repository & review 1826 p276
Transactions of the Linnean Society 1835 List of Fellows page 9
Beware: There is a son (Jnr) of the same name listed at his address in Birmingham
Intersting account of Queens Hospital 14 entries for Knowles But note date of 1873 (after death??) Reprint of the charter, supplemental charters, the Warneford Trust deeds and the Act of Parliament of the Queen's College, Birmingham"
1833 Partnership dissolved between Knowles and Francis Russell Elkington:
Paxton's flower garden Paxton and Lindley vol 3 1853
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