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The Royal Master is a Caroline era stage play, a comedy written by James Shirley, and first published in 1638.The play is "ranked by many critics as Shirley's ablest work in romantic comedy...It is a play notable for well-knit plot, effective scenes, pleasing characterization, clever dialogue, and poetic atmosphere."
Addington Hills (also referred to as Shirley Hills) is a park in Upper Shirley, London, England. It is managed by the London Borough of Croydon. It was part of the old parish of Addington before the suburb of Shirley was developed in the 1930s. The site consists largely of woodland on a gravel bed, with London's largest area of heathland at its ...
James Shirley Hibberd (1825 – 16 November 1890) was one of the most popular and successful gardening writers of the Victorian era. He was a best-selling editor of three gardening magazines, including Amateur Gardening , the only 19th-century gardening magazine still being published today.
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Royal Gardens, Edmonton, a residential neighbourhood in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; Royal Botanic Gardens (disambiguation), several places; Royal Gardens (nightclub), a former nightclub in Chicago; Royal Gardens, a former residential subdivision of Kalapana, Hawaii, U.S. Royal Gardens, a fictional location in A Series of Unfortunate Events
The couple purchased and moved to the rural property in 1973 and, over the next thirty years, built the garden from scratch. [2] In 2015 Strong announced that he would bequeath the property to the Gardeners' Royal Benevolent Society (Perennial). [3] Perennial accepted the gift in 2021. [4]
The Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art, opened on 19 April 2008, at Kew Gardens is named after her. [4] It was the first gallery in the world dedicated solely to botanical art. Sherwood has been described as a "driving force behind a revival of interest in botanical art".
The flagpole at Kew Gardens, which stood from 1959 until 2007. Kew consists mostly of the gardens themselves and a small surrounding community. [12] Royal residences in the area which would later influence the layout and construction of the gardens began in 1299 when Edward I moved his court to a manor house in neighbouring Richmond (then called Sheen). [12]