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'''Robert Bentley''' ([[March 25]], [[1821]] – [[December 24]], [[1893]]) was an [[United Kingdom|English]] [[botany|botanist]]. He is perhaps best remembered today for the four-volume ''Medicinal Plants'', published in 1880 with Henry Trimen and containing over three hundred hand-colored plates by botanist David Blair.
== Life ==
Robert Bentley was born in Hitchin, Hertfordshire in 1821. While apprenticed to a pharmacist in [[Tunbridge Wells]], he developed an interest in botany. He subsequently studied medicine at [[King's College London]], and became a Member of the [[Royal College of Surgeons]] in 1847 and a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1849.
Bentley served as botany lecturer at the Medical School of the London Hospital, and in 1859 became Professor of Botany at [[King's College London]].
In 1874, Bentley was elected a Fellow of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, and he served as joint editor of the ''British Pharmacopeia'' of 1885.
He died in 1893 and was buried at [[Kensal Green Cemetery]].
== Books by Bentley ==
[[Image:Bentley Trimen lesser galangal.png|thumb|100 px|right|[[Lesser galangal]] shown in a plate from ''Medicinal Plants'' (1880)]]
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=mF4DAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA1&dq=a+manual+of+botany&as_brr=1#PPR3,M1 ''A Manual of Botany: including the structure, functions, classification, properties, and uses of plants, etc.''] (1861), at Google Books
* ''Characters, Properties, and Uses of Eucalyptus'' (1874)
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=X1sDAAAAQAAJ&dq=robert+bentley+botany&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=vD0cirOX3z&sig=1DzfIHFzBwQOjMIwNpRPt2Zou0Q#PPR1,M1 ''Botany''] (1875, London)
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=g_wCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP9&dq=medicinal+plants+bentley&as_brr=1#PPP9,M1 ''Medicinal Plants: being descriptions with original figures of the principal plants employed in medicine and an account of the characters, properties, and uses of their parts and products of medicinal value''] - written with Henry Trimen (1880, London, Churchill)
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=3gEFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA1&dq=robert+bentley&as_brr=1#PPR3,M1 ''The Student’s Guide to Structural, Morphological, and Physiological Botany''] (1883, London)
* ''A Text-book of Organic Materia Medica, comprising a description of the vegetable and animal drugs of the British Pharmacopoeia, with other non-official medicines, etc.'' (1887)
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== References ==
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== Further reading ==
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=1XkMXNmnFREC&pg=RA1-PA212&dq=robert+bentley+obituary&as_brr=1 The Annual Register] (1894, Longmans, Green, and Company, London, p. 212)
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=qiYJAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA181&lpg=PA181&dq=bentley+kings+botany&source=web&ots=OIHc_3Z6rA&sig=i6DK5nzJU1JwN0MxawSaC9b4R6c Obituary] with biographical details in the ''Dictionary of National Biography'' (1901, Macmillan, New York, pages 181-182)
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