Samuel Gilbert

Samuel Gilbert (died 1692?) was an English cleric and writer on floriculture.

Samuel Gilbert, 1683 engraving

Life[]

Gilbert was rector of Quatt in Shropshire, and chaplain to Jane, wife of of . He seems to have lived with his father-in-law John Rea, who died in 1681, at Kinlet, Shropshire, near Bewdley. The date of his death is uncertain.^[1]

Works[]

In 1676 Gilbert published a pamphlet entitled Fons Sanitatis, or the Healing Spring at in Staffordshire, found out by … Lady Jane Gerard, London, pp. 40. Some of the cures recorded in this work are attested by himself; it was suggested that he practised as a physician (Journal of Horticulture, 1876, p. 172). He also published the Florist's Vademecum and Gardener's Almanack (1683, subsequent editions in 1690, 1693, 1702, and 1713). The work is arranged according to the months.^[1]

Gilbert's writings contain verses, and it has been suggested that he also composed those in Rea's Flora, Ceres, and Pomona, 1676.^[1]

Family[]

Gilbert married Minerva, daughter of John Rea. They had one son, Arden, and four or five daughters.^[1]

Notes[]

Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney, eds. (1890). "Gilbert, Samuel". Dictionary of National Biography. 21. London: Smith, Elder & Co.