Biographies of The Guild
Discover and explore the timeline of our past friends of Kew Gardens and Wakehurst.
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Allan Cunningham
(The King’s Collector for Kew in Brazil, Australia and New Zealand; Colonial Botanist in New South Wales.)
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Peter Good
(Seed and plant collector for Kew on HMS Investigator)
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John Dallachy
(Gardener at Kew mid-1840s)
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Berthold Carl Seemann
(Botanist, plant collector, including voyage of HMS Herald 1847–1851, central America, Fiji; writer)
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Robert MacKenzie Cross
(Kew gardener, 1857)
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George Samuel Jenman
(Kew gardener, Superintendent, Castletown Gardens, Jamaica, Government botanist and superintendent, British Guiana. )
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Henry James Murton
(Kew gardener 1873)
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William Goldring
(Landscape architect, and naturalist and President of the Kew Guild 1913)
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Philip MacMahon
(Kew gardener 1881)
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Hermann Krumbiegel
(Botanist and Garden Designer)
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Hugh Fraser Macmillan
(Student gardener at Kew from 1893 to 1895.)
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Henry Harold Welch Pearson
(Assistant at Kew, 1899–1903. Foundation Professor of Botany, South African College, Cape Town, 1903–16. Instrumental in foundation of Kirstenbosch Botanic Gardens, 1913. Collected widely in southern Africa. Studied Gnetales, especially Welwitschia and Gnetum.)
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Albert E.P. Griessen
(Kew Gardener, 1896. At Botanic Gardens, Calcutta, 1898. Superintendent, Taj Gardens, 1900.)
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Alexander Bremner Westland
(Gardener and plant collector who served in the Hong Kong Botanic Garden and the Taj Mahal gardens. Collected on Lan Tan Island and adjacent islands.)
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Alice Hutchings (Mrs W.H. Patterson)
(One of the first female gardeners at Kew)
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Amos C. Hartless
(Kew gardener, 1888. )
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Dr. Charles Metcalfe
(Keeper of the Jodrell Laboratory from 1946-1969, and President of the Kew Guild in 1960-1961.)
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Henry Robert Cocker
(Student gardener at Kew from 1928 to 1933)
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George Ernest Brown
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Leo Pemberton
(Profoundly influenced many horticultural careers)
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Thomas Seager
(Director of Parks and Chief Amenities and Recreation Officer)
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Daniel Bliss
(Former Kew Guild President honoured at Swansea Botanical Gardens)
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John Sales
(Head of Gardens, The National Trust, for three decades)
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Tom Risely
(Master of Horticulture (RES) Dip IPRA Cert Hort Kew FIHort)
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Cyril John Giles (Hort) FLS
(Collected the only known specimen globally of the orchid Kuhlhasseltia gilesii whilst working in Borneo for RBG Kew)
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Grenville 'Gren' Lucas
(Committed botanist and conservationist)
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Tony Schilling
(Transformer of Wakehurst Place)
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Richard Ward
(Richard Ward, President of the Kew Guild 1998/99)
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Harold Graham Heywood
(President of the Kew Guild 2022-23, recipient of the Queens Award and British Empire Medal)
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Raymond Evison
(Nurseryman, clematis breeder, lecturer, author and photographer. )
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Chris Kidd
(President of the Kew Guild 2020-22)
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Sara Arnold
(Secretary of the Kew Guild 1998 - date)
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Allan Hart, A.L.I., M.I.Hort., Dip.Ld.(UCL), Dip.IPRA
(Kew Guild President 2002-2003)
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Roy Lancaster CBE
(A highly honoured horticulturalist )
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Alan Barber OBE
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Pamela Holt
(Vice President 2010/2011)
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Noel McGough
(Awarded the Kew Guild Medal 2012)
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Christopher Brickell CBE VMH
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Tony Overland
(President of the Kew Guild 2015-16)
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Alan Titchmarsh MBE DL VMH HonFSE
(Distinguished horticulturalist)
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Chris Beardshaw
(All of the UK’s major horticultural events have benefited from Chris's expertise, often adding an appealing and captivating touch of humour along the way.)
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Martin Duncan
(An inspirational character, passionate about plants and the gardens he tends. )
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Laurie Dewar Olin
(Laurie Olin, a distinguished American teacher, author, and one of the most renowned landscape architects practicing today.)
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The Ward Family
(The Ward family were recognised for their collective services to the Journal in particular. )
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Silke Strickrodt
(Silke is a horticulturist in Kew Gardens's Tropical Nursery, where she works with the arid collections. )
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Robert Brett
(Curator of RHS Garden Hyde Hall in Essex)
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Rosalind Whistance
(Editor of the Kew Guild Journal)
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Colin Hindmarch
(President of the Kew Guild 2004-2005)
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Susan K. Weiler, FASLA, RLA
(Kew Guild Honorary Fellow, 2024)
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