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SUMMARY:Lecture -"The Tradescants"\, David Marsh
DESCRIPTION:John Tradescant and his son\, also John. They were an extraordinary pair: Gardeners to the aristocracy and royalty in the C17th\, as well as plant hunters\, nurserymen and founders of the first museum to be open to the public. Famous in their own lifetimes\, and continuously in the centuries since\, their lives have even been romanticised by a modern novelist. \nJohn senior worked for the Cecil family at Hatfield\, and later the Duke of Buckingham\, the royal favourite\, and travelled to Europe buying plants for their gardens. He accompanied diplomats to northern Russia in 1618\, with a naval fleet to North Africa in 1620\, and on the military expedition to La Rochelle in 1627\, using these opportunities to collecting plants and interesting objects. In the early 1630s he not only became a royal gardener but set up a nursery in Lambeth\, publishing a catalogue of available plants\, and opening his collection of curiosities to the public. \nJohn junior worked alongside his father and in 1637 went to Virginia to collect plants. He succeeded his father as royal gardener\, a post he lost because of the Civil War. He published a catalogue of their museum which also included plants in the nursery. \nThe pair are buried in the same grave in the grounds of St Mary’s Lambeth\, which is now the Garden Museum. \nDavid Marsh is  Course Director for an MA in Garden History and an honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Buckingham and also supervises PhD students! Until very recently\, David was a trustee of the Gardens Trust\, the national campaigning body for the protection and support of our historic parks\, gardens and designed landscapes. He writes a weekly blog for them on any aspect of garden history that takes his fancy. It’s designed to both inform and amuse\, as well sometimes encouraging you to do a bit more research yourself. It comes out every Saturday morning in time for breakfast and you can find it at thegardenstrust.blog \nThis lecture is free to WGT members who will receive the zoom link in due course. \nNon-members please book here!
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