William Edward Gumbleton
William Edward Gumbleton | |
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 Portrait of William Edward Gumbleton published in William Robinson (editor), The garden. An illustrated weekly journal of horticulture in all its branches, volume 55, London, 1899. | |
| Born | March 2, 1840 County Cork, Ireland |
| Died | April 4, 1911 (aged 71) |
William Edward Gumbleton (2 March 1840 – 4 April 1911) was an Irish horticulturist with at least one species (Arctotis gumbletonii) and two cultivars named after him.
He was the elder of the two sons of Rev. George Gumbleton, an
As a young man, he travelled in Europe with his mother and studied languages, art and music, before settling at Belgrove,
.Gumbleton was highly opinionated and quite intolerant of other people and of plants which he considered 'inferior'. There are examples of cases where, during visits to other people's gardens, he destroyed inferior specimens of plants, sometimes with his umbrella.
The species Arctotis gumbletonii was named after him by
'W.E. Gumbleton'.He built up a comprehensive collection of botanical books which he bequeathed to the
References
- Joseph Foster, Alumni Oxonienses 1715-1886
- B.D. Morley & E.C.Nelson, Irish Horticulturists, II — William Edward Gumbleton (1840-1911), Connoisseur and Bibliophile, Garden History, Vol. 7, No. 3 (Winter, 1979), pp. 53–65.
- Ray Desmond, Desmond Desmond, Dictionary of British and Irish Botanists and Horticulturists, Taylor & Francis, 1994. ISBN 0-85066-843-3
