William Anderson (horticulturist)
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William Anderson (1766–1846), was a Scottish horticulturist.
Anderson was born in Easter Warrington,
rising of 1745, forester and gardener to a Jacobite laird in the western highlands, who had some share in favouring the escape of Charles Edward Stuart. About 1790 he entered upon gardening work in some nurseries near Edinburgh, and subsequently made his way to London, where he became gardener to James Vere, of Kensington Gore, a wealthy silk merchant who had a large collection of plants.[1]
In 1814 he was appointed by the
Gardener's Magazine and Horticultural Society's Transactions
. He died at Chelsea, 6 October 1846, and is buried in the churchyard of the old church.
References
- ^ An earlier gardener to Vere was John Graeffer.
. Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.