GERARD, JOHN English herbalist and sur geon, was born at Nantwich, Cheshire. He was educated at Wister son or Willaston and, setting up in London, acted as superinten dent of the gardens of Lord Burghley. In 1J97 appeared his well known Herball which was really an adaptation of the Stirpium historiae pemptades (1583) of Rembert Dodoens. Its illustrations are mostly impressions from the wood blocks employed by Jacob Theodorus Tabernaemontanus in his 'cones stirpium, published at Frankfurt in 1590. He died in London in Feb. 1612.
See preface to the 1633 edition of the Herball by I. Johnson; A Catalogue of Plants cultivated in the Garden of John Gerard in the years 1596-1599, with a Life of the Author, by B. Daydon Jackson, F.L.S. (1876), and Gerard's Herball, the essence thereof distilled by Marcus Woodward (1927) .