Hans Sloane
Irish botanist, doctor, and collector (1660-1753) · United Kingdom · On the map · Scientists · Died at 92
Sir Hans Sloane, 1st Baronet was an Anglo-Irish physician, naturalist, and collector. He had a collection of 71,000 items which he bequeathed to the British nation, thus providing the foundation of the British Museum, the British Library, and the Natural History Museum, London.
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Title page, Sloane's Voyage to Jamaica, 1725
Illustration from critique of the first volume of A voyage to the islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica, published in Acta Eruditorum, 1710
Sloane, 1736![The coat of arms of Sir Hans Sloane[31]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Arms_of_Sloane_of_Chelsea.png/500px-Arms_of_Sloane_of_Chelsea.png)
The coat of arms of Sir Hans Sloane[31]
The Tudor House of his Chelsea Manor.![Bust of Sloane by Michael Rysbrack (1730s) in the British Museum[38]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Bust_of_Sir_Hans_Sloane_%281730s%29_by_Michael_Rysbrack%2C_currently_housed_in_the_British_Museum_in_London_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Bust_of_Sir_Hans_Sloane_%281730s%29_by_Michael_Rysbrack%2C_currently_housed_in_the_British_Museum_in_London_%28cropped%29.jpg)
Bust of Sloane by Michael Rysbrack (1730s) in the British Museum[38]
Bust by Michael Rysbrack, main foyer, British Library
