John Sibthorp M.D. R.S.S.
Botanicals
In the Oxford Academy
Professor
For the investigation of natural things
Devoted, though a short life, to
Phytology in the first venerable
Regions of distance and places
not inaccessible to pilgrims
Opposite to the dissuasive health
In spite of the danger from every side
He explored
The journey is full of troubles
Which he had lately done through Greece
Overwhelmed with work
He died in Bath
On the eighth of February
In the thirty-eighth year of his age
Christ 1796
John Sibthorp (28 October 1758 – 8 February 1796) was an English botanist.