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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 ]
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]
In April 2016 RBG Kew announced a positive 4 year funding settlement from the UK government through DEFRA. [ 9 ] Deverell has also been behind a higher profile for botanical science at RBG Kew since he became Director, with the unveiling of a new Science Strategy in 2015, the launch of the first State of the World's Plants report in 2016, [ 10 ...
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."
He was promoted to Senior Principal Scientific Officer and in 1989 appointed the Keeper of the Herbarium and Library at Kew and Deputy Director; he retired in 1995. After retirement he remained at Kew for a year as head of the Information Services Department. [3] Gren met his wife Shirley while at University and they were married while in ...
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 ...