The John Bargrave Collection
Charles Dubois (bap. 1658 - 1740)
Alias Charles [Alias] Du-BoisBotanist and treasurer for the East India Company. He was associated with other collectors, such as Petiver and Sloane. In a list of collectors, Emanuel Mendes da Costa comments, "The collection of the famous Charles Dubois, esq. remains in the family, viz. in the hands of Peter Uraldo, esq. of Mitcham, in Surrey, (N. B. MSS, about 1760, when I saw it.)" (205). Later in the same document, he alters his account slightly:
Mr. Charles Dubois died between 1735 and 1740, very aged. His heirs were Mr. Waldo, who married his niece, and her sister. Was a great and celebrated botanist, and had an excellent botanic garden to his house on the upper green, where the fair it kept, at Mitcham, in Surry [sic]. He had collections of shells, fossils, &c. of which I saw some at Mr. Waldo's, junior, about 1760 (207).The ODNB states that "Dubois bequeathed his books, his herbarium, and all his other curiosities to his brother-in-law Ebenezer Dubois." It may be that portions of the collection went to both Ebenezer Dubois and to Peter Waldo. His dried plants (seventy-four folio volumes containing some thirteen-thousand specimens) form part of the herbarium at the Oxford Botanic Garden (ODNB). Dictionary of National Biography entry: http://www.oxforddnb.com.cyber.usask.ca/view/article/8113?docPos=1 Other biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dubois_(treasurer) Roles: Botanist
Collector
Donator of object(s)
People linked to person: Charles Dubois was a donor to William Courten (28 Mar 1642-26 Mar 1702)
Charles Dubois was a employed by East India Company (1600-)
Charles Dubois was a associate or acquaintance (general) of James Petiver (c. 1665-Apr 1718)
Charles Dubois was a associate or acquaintance (general) of Hans Sloane (1660-1753)
Charles Dubois was a member of Temple Coffee House club (-)
Charles Dubois was a father-in-law of Peter Waldo (-)
Edward Bulkley (-10 Aug 1714) was a correspondent of Charles Dubois
James Cuninghame (17th c.-1709) was a associate or acquaintance (general) of Charles Dubois
James Cuninghame (17th c.-1709) was a source of object(s) for Charles Dubois
Ebenezer Dubois (-) was a brother-in-law of Charles Dubois
Peter Waldo (-) was a recipient of object(s) from Charles Dubois