He was born at Brunswick, and was appointed superintendent of the Oxford Physic Garden (as it then was) after its foundation in 1632 as the first such garden in England by Henry Danvers, 1st Earl of Danby, John Tradescant the Elder having turned down the position.
He carried out experimental work, for example testing the opinion of Jacob Bobart the Elder that certain plant species spontaneously mutated.
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