Arthur Dobbs
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A longtime bureaucrat in the British government, Dobbs (1689-1765) held numerous posts from survey-general of Ireland to royal governor of North Carolina (1754-65). He wrote many scholarly works, such as An Essay on the Trade and Improvement of Ireland, and he made many natural observations, including the Venus Flytrap. According to historian Richard Beale Davis, the North Carolina governor was "a son of the Enlightenment and one of his colony's ablest executives."
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