Founder and president of the first Board of Agriculture. Born Scotland into family of the Earls of Caithness. 1780 entered the House of Commons. Promoted a scientific and statistical approach to ag...
Person, Gardens / Agriculture, Politics & Administration, Science, Scotland
Swedish botanist. Came to London in June 1760 to promote Carl Linnaeus’ taxonomy and used it to catalogue the natural history collections at the British Museum. Travelled with Joseph Banks on Capta...
The Park was created mainly from market gardens. More information at Historic England. The opening day is variously given as 19 or 9. An information board at each of the main entrances to the par...
St. Georges Burial Ground was so used from 1731 to 1857.
Their website describes the gardens thus: "An oasis of calm used every week by hundreds of people living and working in London WC1."
From the Picture source website: "... the St James’s Square Trust is intent on preserving tranquility and avoiding the incursion of large, disruptive commercial ventures in the Square. The gardens ...
In 1714 John Michele gave the ground to St John’s Church in St John’s Square for use as a graveyard. About 100 years later Rev. William Dawson arranged that the church donate the graveyard as a pub...
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