Abercrombie, John (1726–1806), horticulturist and writer, was born in Prestonpans, near Edinburgh, the son of a market gardener. He was educated at a grammar school, and at the age of fourteen began to work under his father. He went to London about 1751, and was employed first in the ...
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Abercrombie, John (1726–1806), horticulturist and writer
Francis Espinasse
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Aiton, William (1731–1793), horticulturist
D. J. Mabberley
Aiton, William (1731–1793), horticulturist, was born at Boghall, Carnwath, Lanarkshire, the son of John Aiton, farmer, and his wife, Jean Weir. With his two brothers he trained as a gardener on the Shawfield estate at Woodhall near Airdrie. In 1754 he settled in ...
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Aiton, William Townsend (1766–1849), horticulturist
D. J. Mabberley
Aiton, William Townsend (1766–1849), horticulturist, was born at 199 Kew Road, Kew, Surrey, on 2 February 1766, the elder son of the horticulturist William Aiton (1731–1793) and his wife, Elizabeth (c.1740–1826), whose maiden name was possibly Townsend. He was educated privately in ...
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Aldridge, John Arthur Malcolm (1905–1983), painter and gardener
Anne Whiteman
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Aldridge, John Arthur Malcolm (1905–1983), painter and gardener, was born near Woolwich, London, on 26 July 1905, the second of the three sons (there were no daughters) of Major John Barttelot Aldridge DSO of the Royal Field Artillery and his wife, Margaret Jessica Goddard...
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Amherst [formerly Tyssen-Amherst], Alicia Margaret [married name Alicia Margaret Cecil, Lady Rockley] (1865–1941), garden historian
Jason Tomes
Amherst [formerly Tyssen-Amherst], Alicia Margaret [married name Alicia Margaret Cecil, Lady Rockley] (1865–1941), garden historian, was born on 30 July 1865 at Didlington Hall, Didlington, near Mundford, Norfolk, fifth of the seven children (all daughters) of William Amhurst Tyssen-Amherst (1835–1909), landowner, and his wife, ...
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Anderson, James (1738–1809), surgeon and horticulturist
Ray Desmond
Anderson, James (1738–1809), surgeon and horticulturist, was born on 17 January 1738 at Long Hermiston near Edinburgh, the son of Andrew Anderson, a local doctor. He attended the village school at Ratho and studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh. He was a surgeon on an ...
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Anderson, James (1738–1809)
Maker: Luigi Schiavonetti
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James Anderson (1738–1809) by Luigi Schiavonetti (after John Smart, 1800) © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Anderson, William (1766–1846), horticulturist
James Britten
revised by Anne Pimlott Baker
Anderson, William (1766–1846), horticulturist, was born in Easter Warrington, Edinburgh, the son of a forester and gardener to a Jacobite laird in the western highlands who had helped Charles Edward, the Young Pretender, to escape after the 1745 rising. He was known to be working in some nurseries near ...
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Aram, Peter (bap. 1667, d. 1735), gardener and writer
John Goodridge
Aram, Peter (bap. 1667, d. 1735), gardener and writer, was baptized on 13 October 1667, at Clifton, Nottinghamshire, the son and eldest of three children of Henry Aram, fisherman, and his second wife, Dorothy (b. 1630), daughter of Thomas and Alice Westbrook...
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Arnott, Samuel (1852–1930), gardener and politician
John M. Grimshaw
Arnott, Samuel (1852–1930), gardener and politician, was born above his father's baker's shop at the corner of Friar's Vennel, Dumfries, on 30 September 1852, the son of John Arnott (d. 1858) and his wife, Nicholas Richardson. His father, who was descended from a line of farmers and lead miners in the parish of ...
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Arnott, Samuel (1852–1930)
Maker: James George McLellan Arnott
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Samuel Arnott (1852–1930), by James George McLellan Arnott
Dumfries and Galloway Council
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Austen, Ralph (c. 1612–1676), horticulturist and religious radical
James Grantham Turner
Austen, Ralph (c. 1612–1676), horticulturist and religious radical, was born into a yeoman family in Leek, Staffordshire; his mother was a cousin of Henry Ireton, the parliamentary leader, a connection Austen repeatedly stressed in his attempts to gain offices or land grants. Austen...
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Austin, David Charles Henshaw (1926–2018), rose breeder
Stefan T. Buczacki
Austin, David Charles Henshaw (1926–2018), rose breeder, was born on 16 February 1926 at The Rest, Albrighton, Shifnal, Shropshire, the second of three children and only son of Charles Frederick Austin (1887–1979), farmer, and his wife Lilian, née Kidson (b....
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Backhouse family (per. c. 1770–1945), naturalists and horticulturists
Peter Davis
Backhouse family (per. c. 1770–1945), naturalists and horticulturists, came to prominence with James [i] Backhouse (1721–1798), who founded the Backhouse Bank in Darlington, co. Durham, in 1774 with his sons Jonathan (1747–1826) and James [ii] (1757–1804). It was Jonathan Backhouse who initiated the family's connection with horticulture, by following the mid-eighteenth-century fashion for large-scale tree planting on his estates at ...
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Backhouse, Robert Ormston 1854–1940(1854–1940)
Maker: Vivian
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Robert Ormston Backhouse 1854–1940 by Vivian Royal Horticultural Society, Lindley Library; photograph National Portrait Gallery, London
