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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]
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:
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 ]
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 ...
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 ...
Salisbury was director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew from 1943 to 1956. [2] He was responsible for the restoration of the gardens after the Second World War . He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on 15 March 1933 and won the society's Royal Medal in 1945 for "his notable contributions to plant ecology and to the study of the British ...
Kew Gardens is a botanic garden in southwest London that houses the "largest and most diverse botanical and mycological collections in the world". [1] Founded in 1840, from the exotic garden at Kew Park, its living collections include some of the 27,000 taxa [ 2 ] curated by Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew , while the herbarium , one of the largest ...
William Aiton medal by Royal Botanic Garden's Kew in December 2016 for exceptional services to Kew. In 2019 he was awarded the Victoria Medal of Honour (VMH). [ 2 ] The award was established in 1897 "in perpetual remembrance of Her Majesty's glorious reign, and to enable the RHS Council to confer honour on British horticulturists."