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A fact from Lee and Kennedy appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 7 September 2010 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that Hammersmith, London, who introduced the Chilean fuchsia, Fuchsia magellanica, to English gardens in 1788? A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2010/September.

Lewis Kennedy was "gardener to Lord Bolton at Chiswick", ca 1740s. All the sources repeat this, copying one another, from George William Johnson, A History of English Gardening, Chronological, Biographical, Literary, and Critical, 1829:216: "...in conjunction with Kennedy, then gardener to Lord Bolton at Chiswick, Lee commenced the Business of a Nurseryman...". I confess I can't actually identify "Lord Bolton" or his garden at Chiswick, mentioned in every source just in that way, without further hints. Perhaps no one else has either. Was there a "Lord Bolton" in the 1740s? Thomas Orde-Powlett, 1st Baron Bolton, his title of Baron (1797) possibly graciously extended into the past when he was mentioned in the 1820s, was married in 1778 to Jean Mary Browne-Powlett, natural daughter of the 5th D. of Bolton. But whether Thomas Orde, latterly Lord Bolton, had a villa at Chiswick or not, he's a generation too young. Could the 5th Duke of Bolton have been miscalled a Lord Bolton in G.W. Johnson's History? it scarcely seems possible. --Wetman (talk) 03:14, 29 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]