William Roscoe
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title:
William Roscoe
text:
William Roscoe was an English banker, lawyer, and briefly a Member of Parliament. He is best known as one of England's first abolitionists, and as the author of the poem for children The Butterfly's Ball, and the Grasshopper's Feast. In his day he was also respected as a historian and art collector, as well as a botanist and miscellaneous writer. The standard author abbreviation Roscoe is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.
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English banker, lawyer, politician and botanist (1753–1831)
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Roscoe
date created:
2003-12-01T20:35:11Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T14:14:23Z
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