RELHAN, RICHARD, son of Anthony Relhan MD FRCP FRCP (I), Brighton, Sussex, medical practitioner, and his first wife Sarah Breholt, Dublin; b. Dublin; adm.; KS (aged 13) 1767; Capt. of the School 1771; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1772, adm. pens. 17 Jun 1772, scholar 7 May 1773; BA 1776; MA 1779; ordained deacon (lit. dim. from Canterbury) 1777, priest (Peterborough) 27 Jun 1779; Curate, New Romney, Kent 1777; Fellow and Chaplain, King’s Coll. Cambridge 1781; delivered a course of lectures on botany to Cambridge Univ. 1787; FRS 6 Dec 1787; Rector of Hemingby, Lincs., 1791; one of original Fellows of Linnean Society 1788; the genus Relhania was named after him by L’Héritier; author, Flora Cantabridgiensis, 1785, and of editions of Tacitus’s De Moribus Germanorum et de Vita Agricolae, 1809, and of Tacitus’s Historia, 1819; m. 31 Jul 1778 Maria Day (IGI); d. 28 Mar 1823.
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