Busch, John (c. 1730–1795), nurseryman and landscape gardener, was born at Lüneburg, Hanover. Christened Johann, he later signed himself Johann Busch, John Busch, or John Bush. The family retained the spelling Busch. Although his early education and training are uncertain, it is likely that he studied gardening in ...
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Fish [née Townshend], Margery (1892–1969), gardener and author, was born at 16 Eastbank, Stamford Hill, London, on 5 August 1892, the second of the four daughters of Ernest Townshend (d. 1926), City of London commercial traveller in tea, and his wife, ...
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Margery Fish (1892–1969) by Valerie Finnis, 1960s © Valerie Finnis/National Portrait Gallery, London
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Johnston, Lawrence Waterbury (1871–1958), garden designer and plantsman, was born in Paris on 17 October 1871, the elder son of Elliott Johnston (1826–1901), a member of a well-connected banking family from Baltimore, Maryland, and his wife, Gertrude Cleveland Waterbury (1845–1926), an equally well-connected heiress from ...
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Kathleen Letitia Lloyd Jones (1898–1978) by unknown photographer, 1920s private collection
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Jones, Kathleen Letitia Lloyd (1898–1978), garden designer and nurserywoman, was born on 4 June 1898 at Rotherslade House at Oystermouth on the Gower peninsula in Glamorgan. Known as Kitty, she was the ninth of the ten children of Arthur Lloyd Jones (1853–1932), a physician and surgeon, and his wife, ...
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London, George (d. 1714), nurseryman and garden designer, was apprenticed to John Rose, gardener to Arthur Capel, earl of Essex, and Charles II. Rose recognized London's latent genius and sent him to study French gardens. It may be significant that Rose was working for ...
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Morris, Sir Cedric Lockwood, ninth baronet (1889–1982), painter and plantsman, was born in Sketty, Swansea, on 11 December 1889, the only son and eldest of the three children of George Lockwood Morris (d. 1947), iron-founder and later eighth baronet, and his wife, ...
