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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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)
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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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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)
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Robert Ormston Backhouse 1854–1940 by Vivian Royal Horticultural Society, Lindley Library; photograph National Portrait Gallery, London
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Barker, John (1771–1849), diplomatist and horticulturist
Arthur H. Grant
revised by Lynn Milne
Barker, John (1771–1849), diplomatist and horticulturist, was born at Smyrna on 9 March 1771. His father, William Barker, of The Hall, Bakewell, Derbyshire, was on his way from Florida to India, when ill health caused him to settle at Smyrna. John Barker was educated in ...
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Bateman, James (1811–1897), horticulturist and botanist
E. I. Carlyle
revised by William T. Stearn
Bateman, James (1811–1897), horticulturist and botanist, was born on 18 July 1811 at Redivals, near Bury in Lancashire, the only child of John Bateman (1782–1858), banker, ironfounder, and manufacturer, of Knypersley Hall in Staffordshire and Tolson Hall in Westmorland, and his wife, Elizabeth...
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Berry [née Walpole; first married name Palmer], Lady Anne (1919–2019), horticulturist
Catherine Horwood
Berry [née Walpole; first married name Palmer], Lady Anne (1919–2019), horticulturist, was born in Wolterton Hall, Norfolk, on 11 December 1919, the daughter of Robert Horace Walpole, fifth and last earl of Orford (1854–1931), and his second wife, Emily Gladys, ...
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Blackburne, John (bap. 1694, d. 1786), horticulturist
J. R. Edmondson
Blackburne, John (bap. 1694, d. 1786), horticulturist, baptized on 13 September 1694 at Warrington parish church, was born at Orford Old Hall, near Warrington where his father, Jonathan Blackburne (1646–1724), owned a country estate. His mother was the widowed Anne Lockwood, née Chilton (1655×7–1732)...
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Blackstone, William (bap. 1596?, d. 1675), settler in America and horticulturist
Robert Charles Anderson
Blackstone, William (bap. 1596
