- Charles Dubois (treasurer)
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Charles Dubois (died 1740), was treasurer to the East India Company.
Dubois lived at Mitcham, Surrey, where he had a garden filled with the newest exotics at that time in course of introduction. As regards botany, he seems to have been chiefly a patron rather than a worker; thus he appears as one of twelve English subscribers to Micheli's ‘Nova Genera,’ 1728. His name, however, occurs as having contributed observations to the third edition of Ray's ‘Synopsis,’ 1724.
His dried plants occupy seventy-four folio volumes, the entire number of specimens being about thirteen thousand, and are in excellent preservation; they form part of the herbarium at the Oxford Botanic Garden. He died 21 October 1740. Brown established his genus Duboisia in commemoration.
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Dubois, Charles". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
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