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The site was originally occupied by the Agri-Horticultural Society of the Punjab and had been planned as a botanical garden modelled on Kew Gardens in London. [6] The garden was named after John Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence , who served as the first Chief Commissioner and then Lieutenant Governor of the Punjab , and who later became Viceroy of ...
The memorial was dedicated to Dr. William D. Young (1874-1918), a local physician who, in the era before universal health care, had devoted himself to the health and welfare of children of the neighbourhood. [1] Young died after being stricken with influenza while tending to the sick during the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918. [2]
Daniel Oliver (1830–1916), Professor of Botany at University College London 1861–88 and Keeper of Kew Gardens' Herbarium 1864–90, lived on Kew Green. [70] Henry Nicholas Ridley (1855–1956), botanist, geologist and naturalist, died at his home in Kew. [71] John Smith (1798–1888), botanist, the first curator at Kew Gardens, lived on Kew ...
Queens Boulevard starts off as a small 2-lane street at Jamaica Avenue, but becomes a 6 lane median-divided street at Hillside Avenue one block north.. Queens Boulevard runs northwest to southeast across a little short of half the length of the borough, starting at Queens Plaza at the Queensboro Bridge entrance in Long Island City and running through the neighborhoods of Sunnyside, Woodside ...
Kew is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. [2] ... It became a suburb in 1905 and is named after Kew Gardens in London. [3] References This page was last ...
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]
Kew Gardens is a large park in The Beaches neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.The park stretches from Queen Street East to Lake Ontario at Kew Beach.. The park began as a private 20.7-acre (8.4 ha) farm owned by Joseph Williams in the 1850s.
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 ...