The Reginald Farrer Collection 1880 - 2004

Reginald Farrer, Farrer family and Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

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Reginald John Farrer, traveller, plant collector, plantsman and writer, was born on the 17th February, 1880 at 3 Spanish Place, London, the eldest of two boys born to James Anson Farrer (1849-1925) and Elizabeth Georgina Ann, nee Reynell-Pack. Farrer was born with a cleft palate and hare lip, the operation scars to correct this he later covered up with a thick moustache. Having to endure many childhood operations he was educated at home and also at Newnham Rectory. Spend...

Balfour, Isaac Bayley, 1853-1922

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Epithet: KBE British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000976.0x0003a8 Isaac Bayley Balfour: Son of John Hutton Balfour, Isaac Bayley Balfour was Regius Keeper at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh between 1888 and 1922, specialising in Rhododendrons and Primulas and making improvements to the RBGE's teaching and laboratory facilities. Balfour was very interested in the history of the...

Cox, E. H. M. (Euan Hillhouse Methven), 1893-

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Smith, Sir William Wright., 1875-1956

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Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh

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Buchan, John, 1875-1940

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John Buchan, Baron Tweedsmuir, was a Scottish diplomat, barrister, journalist, historian, poet and novelist. From the description of Letter from John Buchan to Joseph Harrington O'Brien, 1890-1941, 1921, Nov. 8. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 228769757 English author and statesman, author of The Thirty-Nine Steps; 1st baron Tweedsmuir. From the description of Typed letters signed (4) : Elsfield Manor, Oxford, an...

Younghusband, Sir Francis Edward, 1863-1942

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Farrer, Reginald, 1880-1920

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Lakeland Horticultural Society

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Purdom, William, 1880-1921.

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William Purdom was born in Heversham, Westmoreland, England on April 10, 1880. His early horticultural training began at Brathay Hall Gardens, Ambleside, Cumbria, England where his father, William, held the position of head gardener. Charles Sprague Sargent (1841-1927), the Director of the Arnold Arboretum, was intent on having as many plant collectors as possible engaged in exploring China's flora and hired William Purdom shortly after meeting him in early 1909. Purdom embarked on his first pla...

Farrer family.

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Gye, Ernest Frederick, 1879-1955

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Herbert, Aubrey, 1880-1923

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Bowles, E. A. (Edward Augustus)

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