biography
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| lived:
| (1799–1865)
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| biography:
| Botanist and horticulturalist, born in Catton, Norfolk, E England, UK. He was appointed assistant secretary to the Horticultural Society of London in 1827, and was professor of botany at University College London (1829–60). In 1828 he prepared a report on the royal gardens at Kew which saved them from destruction, and this led to the creation of the Royal Botanic Gardens. The most important of his many publications were those on orchids and The Vegetable Kingdom (1846). |
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