John Buddle Blyth

John Blyth was born in Jamaica in 1814 to John Blythe and Mary Buddle, a "free woman of colour". He received his MD from the University of Edinburgh in 1839 for a thesis titled "The Dependence of the Animal and Organic Functions on Nervous Influence; and the Identity of the Latter with Electricity". He married Jessie Dunbar in Applegarth, Scotland, in 1847. ==Career==

, 1841. Blyth studied at the University of Giessen in Germany and spent six months in Berlin. He was professor of chemistry at the Royal Agricultural College in Cirencester, England, from 1847 to 1848 He translated works by the German chemist Justus von Liebig, of whom he had been a student at Giessen, into English. These included the second volume of the seventh edition of von Liebig's work on agricultural chemistry which was published in New York in 1863 as The Natural Laws of Husbandry. This work included a translation of the introduction to the first volume, the original version of which was considered so controversial for its critique of British farming that it prevented that volume being published in English. ==Death==

Blyth died on 24 December 1871 at Parkview Terrace, Cork, and was buried at Blackrock in that city. Probate was granted to his wife Jessie. He left less than £2,000. (Approximately £250,000 in 2020) ==Selected publications==

• • • Von Liebig, Justus. (1859) Letters on Modern Agriculture. London: Walton & Maberley. (translator) • Von Liebig, Justus. (1863) The Natural Laws of Husbandry. New York: Appleton. (translator) ==References==