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This is a list of Directors of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: 1759–1793 William Aiton [1] 1793–1841 William Townsend Aiton [1] 1841–1865 Sir William Jackson Hooker [2] 1865–1885 Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker [2] 1885–1905 Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer [3] 1905–1922 Sir David Prain [4]
Richard George Deverell CBE (born 1965 [1]) became Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in September 2012. [2] He was previously Controller of CBBC , the department within the BBC responsible for output aimed at children.
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is a non-departmental public body in the United Kingdom sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. An internationally important botanical research and education institution, it employs 1,100 staff. [ 1 ]
John Patrick Micklethwait Brenan (1917–1985) was a British botanist who became director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Brenan was born on 19 June 1917 in Chislehurst and died on 26 September 1985 at Kew. [1] [2] A funeral requiem was held on 3 October 1985 at St. Anne's Church, Kew with a memorial service on the 23rd; he is buried at St ...
When Hooker returned to England his father, who had been appointed director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in 1841, was now a prominent man of science. William Hooker, through his connections, secured an Admiralty grant of £1000 to defray the cost of plates for his son's Botany of the Antarctic Voyages , and an annual stipend of £200 for ...
Sir Arthur William Hill KCMG FRS FLS [1] (11 October 1875, in Watford – 3 November 1941, in Richmond [2]) was Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and a noted botanist and taxonomist. The only son of Daniel Hill, he attended Marlborough College where his interest in natural history was encouraged by the classical master and ...
In 1838, a Parliamentary review of the nation's royal gardens recommended the development of Kew as a national botanical garden. [10] The Kew Gardens Palm House, from Tallis's Illustrated London (1851) In April 1841 he was appointed as the Garden's first full time Director, on the resignation of William Townsend Aiton.
The post of Curator of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew was established in 1841. [1] When the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew came into state ownership in 1841 Sir Willian Jackson Hooker (1785–1865) was appointed its first Director. [1] Over the period 1841 to 1856 Hooker established four curatorial posts at Kew, namely: