Person    | Male  Born 1799  Died 1855

Philip Pusey

Categories: Gardens / Agriculture

Philip Pusey

One of the Commissioners for the Great Exhibition, 1851.

Agriculturist. Born Pusey, Berkshire. Died Christ Church, Oxford.

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Philip Pusey

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Great Exhibition and Prince Albert

Designed by Joseph Durham with modifications by Sydney Smirke. Inaugurated by...

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Coram's Fields

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St John's Clerkenwell graveyard & garden

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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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Cypress Oak

Cypress Oak

Rather than risk life and limb in trying to get to the central reservation, we have borrowed a photograph. The latin name Quercus Robur translates as 'hardy oak'. The cultivar 'Fastigiata' is diffe...

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King George's Fields Foundation

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