biography
| name: |
Loudon, John Claudius
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pronunciation:
[lowdn]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1783–1843)
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| biography:
| Horticultural writer and architect, born in Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire, WC Scotland, UK. Apprenticed to a landscape gardener, he worked in London, and founded and edited The Gardener's Magazine (1826–43) and Architectural Magazine (1834). He was a major influence in London landscape and domestic architecture, and his major work was Arboretum et fruticetum Brittanicum (8 vols, 1838). |
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