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Grigor, James (c. 1811–1848), nurseryman and botanist, lived and worked in Old Lakenham, Norwich, Norfolk. He was the author of the Eastern Arboretum, or, Register of Remarkable Trees, Seats, Gardens … in the County of Norfolk (1841), illustrated with fifty etched plates, issued in fifteen numbers. In the preface ...
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Hyams, Edward Solomon (1910–1975), gardener and ecologist, was born at 6 Wilderton Road, Stamford Hill, London, on 30 September 1910, the son of Arthur Hyams, a newspaper advertising manager, and his wife, Annie Dollie, formerly Leitson, otherwise Hart. He was educated at University College School...
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G. S. Boulger
revised by Alexander Goldbloom
Salisbury, William (d. 1823/1829), nurseryman and botanist, has been erroneously described as a brother of Richard Anthony Salisbury. Nothing is known of his early life. In his Botanist's Companion (1816, 2 vols.) he states that from 1791 he was employed by the board of agriculture...
