Founded originally as "The Horticultural Society of London" by seven friends including Sir Joseph Banks, Sir Charles Greville (Emma Hamilton's lover) John Wedgwood (the eldest son of Josiah Wedgwood I) , gathered together in a room above Hatchards Bookshop in Piccadilly. It was created as a Learned Society. Its aims, amongst others, were to collect and exchange information about plants and to encourage the improvement of horticultural practice.
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Royal Horticultural Society
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Royal Horticultural Society
At Messrs. Hatchard's in a house on this site The Royal Horticultural Society...
Susan Daniel rose bed - St Mary's
The Susan Daniel Rose Bed The roses in this flower bed are named after Susan ...
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Lawrence Hall - Baron Lambourne
The foundation stone of this building was laid 19th October 1926 by the Rt Ho...
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St John's Clerkenwell graveyard & garden
In 1714 John Michele gave the ground to St John’s Church in St John’s Square for use as a graveyard. About 100 years later Rev. William Dawson arranged that the church donate the graveyard as a pub...
2 memorials
Old Velho / First Jewish cemetery
From London Gardens Online : "The Sephardi Velho (Old) Cemetery opened in 1657, the first Jewish cemetery to be established with Oliver Cromwell's approval. The land was formerly part of a garden a...
2 memorials
William Andrews Nesfield
The Regent's Park plaque has the date of birth as 1794 but this contradicts all the other sources we have found, which have 1793. Nesfield was a significant Victorian garden designer who had a rep...
1 memorial
Bunhill Fields Burial Ground
Nonconformists burial ground. Enclosed with a brick wall by the City of London in 1665; gates added 1666. Closed in 1852 by which time it held more than 120,000 bodies. In 1865, to preserve the ...
1 memorial
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