Frederick Janson Hanbury
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Mr Frederick Janson Hanbury (27/5/1851-1/3/1938)
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Biography
Frederick Janson Hanbury was a fifth-cousin of Francis Alfred Hanbury (highlighted in the diagram below). He was also related to another collector represented in the database, Daniel Hanbury (similarly highlighted), who, together with his brother Thomas Hanbury established the Giardini Botanici Hanbury at La Mortola, Italy. It was Thomas who donated the estate at Wisley in Surrey to the RHS.
Frederick had a garden on his estate at Brockhurst House, East Grinstead, in which he grew his famous collection of orchid hybrids.
He collected plants in conjunction with Rachel Ford Thompson.
He worked as a Chairman of Allen & Hanbury, Pharmaceutical manufacturers.
1851 Born 27 May in Stoke Newington, London.
1873 FLS
1874 Married Mary Jane Scarborough King. They had three children.
1889-1898 An Illustrated Monograph of the British Hieracia
1899 Flora of Kent (with Edward Shearburn Marshal).
1924 Victoria Medal of Honour.
1938 Died on 1st March in Uckfield, Sussex.
information included from the herbariaunited database
Inferred associations
collected with
associated with
- John Thomas Irvine Boswell-Syme
- Botanical Exchange Club of The British Isles
- William Hadden Beeby
- Charles Bailey
- Augustin Ley
- Edward Shearburn Marshall
- Richard William David
- Francis Alfred Hanbury
- William Hunt Painter
- Botanical Exchange Club
- Arthur Bennett
- Benjamin Daydon Jackson
- Louis Arsene Institut des Freres de l'Instruction Chretienne
- London Natural History Society
- Arthur Oliver Chater
- Hewett Cottrell Watson
- Charles Edgar Salmon
- R W David
- Edward Francis Linton
- William Richardson Linton
- Frederick Townsend
- George Claridge Druce
- Harold Stuart Thompson
- Allan Octavian Hume
- Botanical Society of Edinburgh
- Anthony Clive Jermy
- Elizabeth Anne Lomax
- D J McCosh
Collection activity by county
1863
1932
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