James Barnston

James Barnston

James Barnston, (3 July 1831 – 20 May 1858), a son of HBC fur trader George Barnston, was born at Norway House (Man.), and trained as a physician at the University of Edinburgh.

Barnston had a love of natural history from his father's influence and this was nurtured while studying medicine. He returned to Canada in 1853 and practiced medicine in Montreal where he also actively continued his botanical pursuits. He promoted the founding of a chair in natural history at McGill and became the first professor of botany at that institution.

He became ill at the end of his first course of lectures and never recovered, dying in his 26th year.

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* [http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=3766 Biography at the "Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online"]


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