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James Donn (1758–1813) was an English botanist and gardener. He was trained by William Aiton, a protege of Sir Joseph Banks and was Curator of the Cambridge University Botanic Garden, Cambridge, from 1790 until his death. His most important work was Hortus Cantabrigiensis, first published in 1796 but with several later, much expanded, editions. It carried on past his death until 1845.

A copy was given to the Library of the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University in 1895.

He became a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1812.

A memorial to James Donn, exists on St Edward the Martyr's church in Cambridge.

A grandson was the English composer William Sterndale Bennett.

References

1. ^ Walters, S. Max (2004). "James Donn". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/7816. Retrieved 9 June 2015. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
2. ^ "James Donn". Botanical Collection Managers Group. Retrieved 9 June 2015.
3. Walters, Stuart Max (1981). The shaping of Cambridge botany : a short history of whole-plant botany in Cambridge from the time of Ray into the present century ; publ. on the occasion of the sesquicentenary of Henslow's New Botanic Garden, 1831–1981. Cambridge u.a.: Univ. Pr. p. 45. ISBN 0521237955. Retrieved 9 June 2015.
4. Walker, Colin C. (1996). "James Donn and the succulents of 'Hortus Cantabrigiensis'". Bradleya. 14. open.ac.uk: 20–28. doi:10.25223/brad.n14.1996.a5. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
5. James DonnHortus cantabrigiensis: or a catalogue of plants, indigenous and exotic plants at Google Books
6. Webster, Simon (31 December 2011). "Remember James Donn". flickr.com. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
7. Sterndale Bennett, JR "The Life of Sterndale Bennett" pp5&46. Cambridge University Press 1907
8. International Plant Names Index.  Donn.

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