Adam Buddle

{{Short description|English cleric and botanist (1662–1715)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}} {{EngvarB|date=August 2019}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Adam Buddle | birth_date = 1662 | birth_place = Deeping St James, Lincolnshire | death_date = 1715 | death_place = Holborn, London | field = Botany | author_abbrev_bot = Buddle }} '''Adam Buddle''' (1662 – 15 April 1715) was an English clergyman and botanist. Born at Deeping St James, a village near Peterborough, Buddle was educated at Woodbridge School and St Catharine's College, Cambridge,<ref name="acad">{{acad|id=BDL678A|name=Buddle, Adam}}</ref> where he gained a BA in 1681, and a MA four years later. He was a Fellow from 1686 until 1691 when he was ejected as a non-juror but he later conformed.<ref name="acad"/>

Buddle was ordained as a deacon in 1685 and priest of the Church of England in December 1702,<ref>{{CCEd|ref=|name=Buddle, Adam (1685 - 1702)|id=5054}}</ref> obtaining a living at North Fambridge, near Maldon, Essex, in 1703. He was also a reader at Gray's Inn under the patronage of Robert Moss.<ref name=ODNB>{{cite ODNB|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/3883|title=Buddle, Adam}}</ref> His life between graduation and ordination remains obscure, although it is known he lived in or around Hadleigh, Suffolk, that he established a reputation as an authority on bryophytes, and that he married Elizabeth Eveare in 1695, with whom he had several children.<ref name=ODNB /> Buddle compiled a new ''English Flora'', completed in 1708, but it was never published; the original manuscript and Buddle's herbarium were preserved as part of the Sloane collection at the Natural History Museum, London.<ref>{{cite journal|title=On the English Mints|journal=Journal of Botany, British and Foreign|volume=3|date=1865|page=254}}</ref>

Buddle died at Gray's Inn in 1715 and was buried at the church of St Andrew, Holborn.<ref name=ODNB />

It is popularly believed that Buddle was posthumously commemorated by Linnaeus, who named the genus ''Buddleja'' in his honour,<ref>{{cite news|title= Urban Perennial|newspaper= The Big Issue|page= 39|last= Dark|first= Ben|date= 4 April 2022}}</ref> but this is not certain.<ref name=ODNB />

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