Samuel Gilbert (died ) was an English cleric, writer on horticulture, and floriculturist.
Life
Gilbert was chaplain to Jane, wife of
Charles Gerard, 4th Baron Gerard
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of
Gerards Bromley, and rector of
Quatt
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in
Shropshire
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. 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.
[Boulger 1890, pp. 334–335.]
Works
In 1676 Gilbert published a pamphlet entitled ''Fons Sanitatis, or the Healing Spring at
Willowbridge in
Staffordshire
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, found out by … Lady Jane Gerard'', London, pp. 40, some of the cures recorded in which work are attested by himself. It has therefore been suggested that he also practised as a physician.
[Boulger 1890, p. 334.]
After the death of Rea, in 1681, he also published the ''Florist's Vademecum and Gardener's Almanack'', 1683, subsequent editions of which appeared in 1690, 1693, 1702, and 1713. The work is arranged according to the months, and to the second edition are added various appendices and a portrait of the author, engraved by
Robert White, which was reproduced in the ''Journal of Horticulture.''
Gilbert speaks of his father-in-law as the greatest of florists; and, as his own writings contain many verses, it has been suggested that he also composed those in Rea's ''Flora, Ceres, and Pomona'', 1676.
Family
Gilbert married Minerva, daughter of John Rea. They had one son, Arden, and four or five daughters.
[Boulger 1890, p. 335.]
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1692 deaths
17th-century English Anglican priests
English garden writers
Writers from Shropshire
English male poets
Clergy from Shropshire