biography
pronunciation:
[tradiskant]
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| lived:
| (1608–62)
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| biography:
| Gardener, born in Meopham, Kent, SE England, UK. He went to Virginia to collect plants and shells (1637), and succeeded his father as head gardener to Charles I in 1638. He bequeathed the celebrated Musaeum Tradescantianum in Lambeth to Elias Ashmole (1617–92), and it became the basis for the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. |
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