John Marten Cripps

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John Marten Cripps (1780–1853) was an English traveller and antiquarian, a significant collector on a Grand Tour he made during the French Revolutionary Wars.[1][2]

Life

The son of John Cripps of

fellow-commoner, on 27 April 1798, and came under the tuition of Edward Daniel Clarke. After a period at Cambridge, he set out on a tour with his tutor. Clarke's lengthy work Travels relates this journey.[3][4] Cripps had become a landowner of independent wealth under the 1797 will of his uncle John Marten.[1]

The tour, intended to be for a few months, lasted three and a half years. On the initial part of their journey, to Norway and Sweden, they were accompanied by

Peace of Amiens.[2] Cripps brought back large collections of statues, antiques, and flora: some of which he presented over time to the University of Cambridge and other institutions.[3]

In 1803 Cripps was created M.A. per literas regias, and also became a Fellow of the

Linnean Society. He became a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, in 1805.[3][5][6]

Landowner and horticulturist

By will dated 1 Octocter 1797, Cripps inherited the property of his maternal uncle, John Marten, which included possessions in the parish of

Chiltington, with the manor of Stantons, Sussex. Having built Novington Lodge on the Stantons estate, Cripps resided there, and devoted time to horticulture, particularly varieties of apples and other fruits. From Russia he introduced the kohlrabi.[3]

Death and legacy

Cripps died at Novington on 3 January 1853, in his seventy-third year.[3]

Cripps had bought the herbarium of Peter Simon Pallas on his journey, when he and Clarke had stayed with Pallas in the Crimea, Clarke being ill. He sold it at auction in 1808, where it went to Aylmer Bourke Lambert.[5][7][8]

The bramble species Rubus crippsii, named by Edward Daniel Clarke in his honour and illustrated in his Travels, is now known as

Rubus sanctus.[1][9]

The Codex Crippsianus, from the 14th century, is now in the

Nigel Guy Wilson as "the most important source for the text of several Attic orators".[12]

Family

Cripps married on 1 January 1806 Charlotte Rush, third daughter of Sir William Beaumaris Rush of Wimbledon, and left children.[3] The following year Clarke married the fifth daughter, Angelica.[7]

Notes

  1. ^
    doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/6704. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  2. ^
    ISBN 978-0-521-59146-1
    .
  3. ^ a b c d e f Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1888). "Cripps, John Marten" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 13. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  4. ^ "Cripps, John Marten (CRPS798JM)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  5. ^ a b London, Linnean Society of (1849). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London. Linnean Society of London. p. 231.
  6. ISBN 978-3-11-085344-5
    .
  7. ^
    doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/5494. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  8. ISBN 978-3-11-085344-5
    .
  9. ^ "Lectotype of Rubus crippsii E.D.Clarke [family ROSACEAE] on JSTOR". plants.jstor.org.
  10. ^ "Digitised Manuscripts, Burney MS 95". www.bl.uk.
  11. ^ E. Maunde Thompson, Classical Manuscripts in the British Museum, The Classical Review Vol. 3, No. 4 (Apr., 1889), pp. 149–155, at p. 152. Published by: Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Classical Association
    JSTOR 692802
  12. ^ N. Wilson, Some Palaeographical Notes, The Classical Quarterly Vol. 10, No. 2 (Nov., 1960), pp. 199–204, at p. 202. Published by: Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Classical Association
    JSTOR 638051

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Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1888). "Cripps, John Marten". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 13. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

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