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Victoria Medal of Honour

Index Victoria Medal of Honour

The Victoria Medal of Honour (VMH) is awarded to British horticulturists resident in the United Kingdom whom the Royal Horticultural Society Council considers deserving of special honour by the Society The award was established in 1897 "in perpetual remembrance of Her Majesty's glorious reign, and to enable the Council to confer honour on British horticulturists." The Society's rules state that only sixty-three horticulturists can hold the VMH at any given time, in commemoration of the sixty-three years of Queen Victoria's reign. [1]

108 relations: Alan Bloom, Alan Mitchell, Alan Titchmarsh, Arthur Algernon Dorrien-Smith, Arthur Hellyer, Arthur Townshend Boscawen, Beatrix Havergal, Beth Chatto, Bressingham Steam and Gardens, Cambridge University Botanic Garden, Charles Maries, Charles McLaren, 3rd Baron Aberconway, Charles Notcutt, Chelsea Physic Garden, Christopher Lloyd (gardener), David C.H. Austin, David S. Ingram, Denmark, Douglas Mackay Henderson, Edmund Leopold de Rothschild, Edward Augustus Bowles, Edward Mawley, Ellen Willmott, Ernest Henry Wilson, Frances Perry, Fred Streeter, Frederick Claude Stern, Frederick William Burbidge, Geoffrey Jellicoe, George Fergusson Wilson, George Forrest (botanist), George Henslow, George King (botanist), George Nicholson (horticulturist), George Yeld, Gertrude Jekyll, Ghillean Prance, Gigha, Giles Rolls Loder, Graham Stuart Thomas, Harold Fletcher (botanist), Harold Hillier, Harry Veitch, Henry Ernest Milner, Henry John Elwes, Henry McLaren, 2nd Baron Aberconway, Henry Nicholson Ellacombe, Horsham, Isaac Bayley Balfour, Jekka McVicar, ..., John Gilbert Baker, John Gilmour (botanist), John Hutchinson (botanist), John Mattock (rose grower), John Pilkington Hudson, John Seden, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Joyce Wethered, Lady Anne Berry, Laura McLaren, Baroness Aberconway, Leonardslee, Lilian Snelling, Lionel de Rothschild, Lower Beeding, Mary Grierson, Michael Foster (physiologist), Miriam Rothschild, Mordecai Cubitt Cooke, Nigel Colborn, Nymans, Patrick Synge, Penelope Hobhouse, Penzance, Percy Thrower, Peter Barr (nurseryman), Peter Beales, Peter Posnette, Peter Seabrook, Peter Veitch, Prince of Wales, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, Queen Victoria, Raymond Evison, RHS Garden, Wisley, Rosemary Verey, Roy Hay (horticulturist), Roy Lancaster, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Royal Horticultural Society, Samuel Hole, Sir Herbert Maxwell, 7th Baronet, Sir James Horlick, 4th Baronet, Sir John Heathcoat-Amory, 3rd Baronet, Sir Richard Carew Pole, 13th Baronet, Sir William Lawrence, 3rd Baronet, Sissinghurst Castle Garden, Stephen Blackmore, Sylvia Crowe, Tony Lord, Trengwainton Garden, United Kingdom, Valerie Finnis, Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, Wilfrid Fox, William Rickatson Dykes, William T. Stearn, William Wright Smith, Winkworth Arboretum. Expand index (58 more) »

Alan Bloom

Alan Herbert Vauser Bloom (19 November 1906 – 31 March 2005) was a British horticulturist and steam engine enthusiast.

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Alan Mitchell

Alan F. Mitchell (4 November 1922 – 3 August 1995) was a British forester, dendrologist and botanist, and author of several books on trees.

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Alan Titchmarsh

Alan Fred Titchmarsh,, HonFSE (born 2 May 1949) is an English gardener, presenter, poet, and novelist.

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Arthur Algernon Dorrien-Smith

Major Arthur Algernon Dorrien-Smith, DSO, DL, JP (28 January 1876 – 30 May 1955) was Lord Proprietor of the Isles of Scilly from 1918 - 1920.

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Arthur Hellyer

Arthur George Lee Hellyer (16 December 1902 – 28 January 1993) was a well-known British horticulturalist.

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Arthur Townshend Boscawen

Reverend Canon Arthur Townshend Boscawen (9 July 1862 – 17 July 1939) was from 1893 the Rector of Ludgvan, Cornwall, UK, and a recreational and commercial horticulturist who introduced the Anemone as a commercial crop to Cornwall.

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Beatrix Havergal

Beatrix Havergal (1901-1980) was an English horticulturist.

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Beth Chatto

Beth Chatto (27 June 1923 – 13 May 2018) was a British plantswoman, garden designer and author best known for creating the Beth Chatto Gardens near Elmstead Market in the English county of Essex.

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Bressingham Steam and Gardens

Bressingham Steam & Gardens is a steam museum and gardens located at Bressingham (adjacent to a Wyevale garden centre), west of Diss in Norfolk, England.

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Cambridge University Botanic Garden

The Cambridge University Botanic Garden is a botanical garden located in Cambridge, England associated with the university Department of Plant Sciences (formerly Botany School).

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Charles Maries

Charles Maries (18 December 1851 – 11 October 1902) was an English botanist and plant collector who was sent by James Veitch & Sons of Chelsea, London to search for new hardy plants in Japan, China and Taiwan between 1877 and 1879; there he discovered over 500 new species, which Veitch introduced to England.

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Charles McLaren, 3rd Baron Aberconway

Charles Melville McLaren, 3rd Baron Aberconway, (16 April 1913 – 4 February 2003) was a British industrialist and horticulturalist.

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Charles Notcutt

Charles Roger Macpherson Notcutt, OBE, VMH (May 30, 1934 – July 1, 2015) was a horticulturalist and businessman.

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Chelsea Physic Garden

The Chelsea Physic Garden was established as the Apothecaries' Garden in London, England, in 1673.

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Christopher Lloyd (gardener)

Christopher Hamilton Lloyd, OBE (2 March 1921 – 27 January 2006) was a British gardener and author.

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David C.H. Austin

David Charles Henshaw Austin OBE (born 16 February 1926) is a rose breeder and writer who lives in Shropshire, England.

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David S. Ingram

David Stanley Ingram, OBE, VMH, FRSB, FRSE, FLS, F.I. Hort (Born 10 October 1941) is an Honorary Professor of Science, Technology and Innovation Studies at the University of Edinburgh Ingram served as Master of St. Catharine's College, Cambridge between 2000 and 2007.

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Denmark

Denmark (Danmark), officially the Kingdom of Denmark,Kongeriget Danmark,.

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Douglas Mackay Henderson

Douglas Mackay Henderson CBE FRSE (30 August 1927 – 10 November 2007) was a Scottish botanist, the 12th Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh from 1970 to 1987.

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Edmund Leopold de Rothschild

Major Edmund Leopold de Rothschild, CBE, TD (2 January 1916 – 17 January 2009) was an English financier, a member of the prominent Rothschild banking family of England, and a recipient of the Victoria Medal of Honour (VMH), given by the Royal Horticultural Society.

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Edward Augustus Bowles

Edward Augustus (Gus or Gussie) Bowles, VMH (14 May 1865 – 7 May 1954), known professionally as E. A. Bowles, was a British horticulturalist, plantsman and garden writer.

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Edward Mawley

Edward Mawley (14 May 1842 – 15 September 1916) was an English meteorologist and horticulturalist.

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Ellen Willmott

Ellen Ann Willmott (19 August 1858 – 27 September 1934) was an English horticulturist.

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Ernest Henry Wilson

Ernest Henry "Chinese" Wilson (15 February 1876 – 15 October 1930), better known as E. H. Wilson, was a notable English plant collector and explorer who introduced a large range of about 2000 of Asian plant species to the West; some sixty bear his name.

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Frances Perry

Frances Mary Perry MBE VMH (19 February 1907 – 11 October 1993) was a gardener, administrator, writer and broadcaster.

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Fred Streeter

Frederick "Fred" Streeter (25 June 1879 – 1 November 1975) was a British horticulturalist and broadcaster.

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Frederick Claude Stern

Sir Frederick Claude Stern (18 April 1884, Knightsbridge, London – 10 July 1967) was a botanist and horticulturalist, known for developing the gardens at Highdown, for creating several cultivars of garden plants and for his publications on peonies, snowdrops and gardening.

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Frederick William Burbidge

Frederick William Thomas Burbidge (1847 in Wymeswold, Leicestershire, England – 1905 in Dublin, Ireland) was a British explorer who collected many rare tropical plants for the famous Veitch Nurseries.

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Geoffrey Jellicoe

Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe (8 October 1900 – 17 July 1996) was an English architect, town planner, landscape architect, garden designer, lecturer and author.

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George Fergusson Wilson

George Fergusson Wilson (25 March 1822 – 28 March 1902) was an English industrial chemist.

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George Forrest (botanist)

George Forrest (13 March 1873 – 5 January 1932) was a Scottish botanist, who became one of the first explorers of China's then remote southwestern province of Yunnan, generally regarded as the most biodiverse province in the country.

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George Henslow

George Henslow (23 March 1835, Cambridge, UK – 30 December 1925, Bournemouth) was an Anglican curate, botanist and author.

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George King (botanist)

Sir George King, KCIE FRS (12 April 1840 – 12 February 1909), was a British botanist appointed superintendent of the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta in 1871, and the first Director of the Botanical Survey of India from 1890.

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George Nicholson (horticulturist)

George Nicholson (7 December 1847 Sharow - 20 September 1908), was an English botanist and horticulturist, amongst 60 awarded the Victoria Medal of Honour by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1897 for their contributions to horticulture.

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George Yeld

George Yeld (1845–1938) was a schoolmaster, climber, explorer and hybridiser of daylilies and irises.

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Gertrude Jekyll

Gertrude Jekyll (29 November 1843 – 8 December 1932) was a British horticulturist, garden designer, artist, and writer.

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Ghillean Prance

Sir Ghillean Tolmie Prance (born 13 July 1937) is a prominent British botanist and ecologist who has published extensively on the taxonomy of families such as Chrysobalanaceae and Lecythidaceae, but drew particular attention in documenting the pollination ecology of Victoria amazonica.

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Gigha

Gigha (italic) is a small island off the west coast of Kintyre in Scotland.

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Giles Rolls Loder

Sir Giles Rolls Loder, 3rd Baronet (1914–1999) was an English aristocrat, World War II veteran, public official, horticulturalist and yachtsman.

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Graham Stuart Thomas

Graham Stuart Thomas OBE (3 April 1909 – 17 April 2003), was an English BSc botanist, best known for his work with garden roses, his restoration and stewardship of over 100 National Trust gardens and for writing 19 books on gardening, many of which remain classics today.

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Harold Fletcher (botanist)

Dr Harold Roy Fletcher FRSE (1907-1978) was an English botanist and horticulturalist.

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Harold Hillier

Sir Harold George Hillier (2 January 1905 – 8 January 1985) was an English horticulturist.

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Harry Veitch

Sir Harry James Veitch (24 June 1840 – 6 July 1924) was an eminent English horticulturist in the nineteenth century, who was the head of the family nursery business, James Veitch & Sons, based in Chelsea, London.

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Henry Ernest Milner

Henry Ernest Milner (18 April 1845 – 10 March 1906), also known as H. E. Milner, was an English civil engineer and landscape architect.

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Henry John Elwes

Henry John Elwes, FRS (16 May 1846 – 26 November 1922) was a British botanist, entomologist, author, lepidopterist, collector and traveller who became renowned for collecting specimens of lilies during trips to the Himalaya and Korea.

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Henry McLaren, 2nd Baron Aberconway

Henry Duncan McLaren, 2nd Baron Aberconway, CBE (16 April 1879 – 23 May 1953) was a British politician, horticulturalist and industrialist.

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Henry Nicholson Ellacombe

Henry Nicholson Ellacombe (1822–1916) was a plantsman and author on botany and gardening.

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Horsham

Horsham is a market town on the upper reaches of the River Arun on the fringe of the Weald in West Sussex, England.

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Isaac Bayley Balfour

Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour, KBE, FRS, FRSE (31 March 1853 – 30 November 1922) was a Scottish botanist.

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Jekka McVicar

Jessica "Jekka" McVicar (born 1951) is an English organic gardening expert, author and broadcaster, particularly on the cultivation and use of herbs.

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John Gilbert Baker

John Gilbert Baker FRS (13 January 1834 – 16 August 1920) was an English botanist.

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John Gilmour (botanist)

John Scott Lennox Gilmour VMH FLS (28 Sept. 1906 – 3 June 1986) was a British botanist, curator of the Cambridge University Herbarium, and later director of Cambridge University Botanic Garden and Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge.

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John Hutchinson (botanist)

John Hutchinson, OBE, FRS (7 April 1884 Blindburn, Northumberland – 2 September 1972 London) was a renowned English botanist, taxonomist and author.

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John Mattock (rose grower)

John Stewart Mattock (23 April 1926 – 23 October 2017) was an English rose grower, and the chairman of the Chelsea Flower Show for twelve years.

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John Pilkington Hudson

John Pilkington Hudson, (24 July 1910 – 6 December 2007) was an English horticultural scientist who did pioneer work on long-distance transportability of what became known as the kiwifruit.

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John Seden

John Seden (1840–1921) was a hybridist and horticulturist best known for the hybrids he created while in the employment of Veitch Nurseries.

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Joseph Dalton Hooker

Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (30 June 1817 – 10 December 1911) was a British botanist and explorer in the 19th century.

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Joyce Wethered

Joyce Wethered, Lady Heathcoat-Amory (17 November 1901 – 18 November 1997) was a golfer regarded as the leading British woman player of the inter-war period.

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Lady Anne Berry

Lady Anne Sophia Berry (née Walpole, 11 December 1919) is an English and New Zealand horticulturist who founded Rosemoor Garden.

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Laura McLaren, Baroness Aberconway

Laura Elizabeth McLaren, Baroness Aberconway CBE, DStJ (born 14 May 1854, Broughton, Lancashire – died 4 January 1933, Antibes, France) was a British suffragist, author and horticulturalist.

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Leonardslee

Leonardslee is a country house and landscaped woodland garden in Lower Beeding, near Horsham, West Sussex, England.

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Lilian Snelling

Lilian Snelling (1879–1972) was "probably the most important British botanical artist of the first half of the 20th century".

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Lionel de Rothschild

Lionel Nathan Freiherr de Rothschild (22 November 1808 – 3 June 1879) was a British banker, politician and philanthropist who was a member of the prominent Rothschild banking family of England.

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Lower Beeding

Lower Beeding is a village and civil parish in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England.

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Mary Grierson

Mary Anderson Grierson (27 September 1912 – 30 January 2012) was a Welsh-born Scottish botanical artist and illustrator.

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Michael Foster (physiologist)

Sir Michael Foster, KCB (8 March 1836 – 29 January 1907) was an English physiologist.

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Miriam Rothschild

Dame Miriam Louisa Rothschild DBE FRS (5 August 1908 – 20 January 2005) was a British natural scientist and author with contributions to zoology, entomology, and botany.

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Mordecai Cubitt Cooke

Mordecai Cubitt Cooke (12 July 1825 in Horning12 November 1914 in Southsea, Hants) was an English botanist and mycologist.

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Nigel Colborn

Nigel Colborn is a British TV presenter and gardening expert/writer.

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Nymans

Nymans is an English garden to the east of the village of Handcross, and in the civil parish of Slaugham in West Sussex, England.

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Patrick Synge

Patrick Millington Synge VMH (17 September 1910 - 1982) was a British botanist, writer and plant hunter.

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Penelope Hobhouse

Penelope Hobhouse MBE (born 20 November 1929), née Chichester-Clark, is a British garden writer, designer, lecturer and television presenter.

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Penzance

Penzance (Pennsans) is a town, civil parish and port in Cornwall, in England, United Kingdom.

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Percy Thrower

Percy John Thrower (30 January 1913 – 18 March 1988) was a British gardener, horticulturist, broadcaster and writer born at Horwood House in the village of Little Horwood, Buckinghamshire.

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Peter Barr (nurseryman)

Peter Barr (1826–1909) was a Scottish nurseryman and merchant, best known for daffodils.

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Peter Beales

Peter Beales MBE, (22 July 1936 – 26 January 2013) was a British rosarian, author and lecturer.

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Peter Posnette

Peter Posnette (real name Adrian Frank Posnette) (11 January 1914 – 17 July 2004) was a British plant pathologist.

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Peter Seabrook

Peter John Seabrook MBE (born 2 November 1935) is a British gardening writer and television broadcaster.

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Peter Veitch

Peter Christian Massyn Veitch (February 1850 – 1929) was a member of the family of horticulturists who established the renowned family business Veitch Nurseries.

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Prince of Wales

Prince of Wales (Tywysog Cymru) was a title granted to princes born in Wales from the 12th century onwards; the term replaced the use of the word king.

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Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother

Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon (4 August 1900 – 30 March 2002) was the wife of King George VI and the mother of Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon.

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Queen Victoria

Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death.

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Raymond Evison

Raymond John Evison OBE, VMH, is a nurseryman, lecturer, author and photographer.

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RHS Garden, Wisley

The Royal Horticultural Society's garden at Wisley in the English county of Surrey south of London, is one of four gardens run by the Society, the others being Harlow Carr, Hyde Hall and Rosemoor.

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Rosemary Verey

Rosemary Verey, OBE, VMH (21 December 1918 in Chatham, Kent – 31 May 2001 in Cheltenham) was an internationally known English garden designer, lecturer and prolific garden writer who designed the famous garden at Barnsley House, near Cirencester.

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Roy Hay (horticulturist)

Roy Hay MBE, VMH (20 August 1910 – 21 October 1989) was a British horticultural journalist and broadcaster.

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Roy Lancaster

Charles Roy Lancaster CBE (born 1937) is a British plantsman, gardener, author and broadcaster.

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Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) is a scientific centre for the study of plants, their diversity and conservation, as well as a popular tourist attraction.

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Royal Horticultural Society

The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS), founded in 1804 as the Horticultural Society of London, is the UK's leading gardening charity.

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Samuel Hole

Samuel Reynolds Hole (5 December 1819 27 August 1904) was an English Anglican priest, author and horticulturalist in the late 19th century and the early part of the 20th.

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Sir Herbert Maxwell, 7th Baronet

The Rt.

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Sir James Horlick, 4th Baronet

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir James Nockells Horlick, 4th Baronet, OBE, MC (1886–1972) was the second son of Sir James Horlick, first holder of the Horlick Baronetcy, of Cowley Manor in the County of Gloucester, England, and Margaret Adelaide Burford.

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Sir John Heathcoat-Amory, 3rd Baronet

Sir John Heathcoat-Amory, 3rd Baronet (2 May 1894 – 22 November 1972) was an English cricketer.

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Sir Richard Carew Pole, 13th Baronet

Sir John Richard Walter Reginald Carew Pole, 13th Baronet, OBE, DL (born 2 December 1938) is the present holder of the Pole baronetcy, granted to his ancestor by King Charles I in 1628.

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Sir William Lawrence, 3rd Baronet

Sir William Matthew Trevor Lawrence, 3rd Baronet JP FSA (17 September 1870 – 4 January 1934) was an English horticulturalist, hospital administrator and collector.

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Sissinghurst Castle Garden

The garden at Sissinghurst Castle in the Weald of Kent, in England at Sissinghurst village, is owned and maintained by the National Trust.

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Stephen Blackmore

Stephen Blackmore CBE FRSE FRSB FLS (born 30 July 1952) is a British botanist, who was educated at St. George’s School, Hong Kong and the University of Reading where he completed his PhD in 1976.

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Sylvia Crowe

Dame Sylvia Crowe, DBE (15 September 1901 – 30 June 1997) was an English landscape architect and garden designer.

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Tony Lord

Tony Lord is a United Kingdom gardener, photographer and author.

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Trengwainton Garden

Trengwainton is a country house and garden situated in Madron, near Penzance, Cornwall, England, UK, which has been in the ownership of the National Trust since 1961.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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Valerie Finnis

Valerie Finnis (1924–2006) was a well-known British photographer, lecturer, teacher and gardener.

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Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild

Lionel Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, Baron de Rothschild, (8 February 1868 – 27 August 1937), was a British banker, politician, zoologist and scion of the Rothschild family.

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Wilfrid Fox

Dr.

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William Rickatson Dykes

William Rickatson Dykes (4 November 1877 – 1 December 1925) was an amateur botanist who became an expert in the field of iris breeding and wrote several influential books on the subject.

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William T. Stearn

William Thomas Stearn (16 April 1911 – 9 May 2001) was a British botanist.

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William Wright Smith

Sir William Wright Smith FRS FRSE FLS VMH LLD (2 February 1875 Lochmaben, Dumfriesshire – 15 December 1956) was a Scottish botanist and horticulturalist.

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Winkworth Arboretum

Winkworth Arboretum is a National Trust-owned arboretum in the spread-out civil parish of Busbridge between Godalming and Hascombe, south-west Surrey, England.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Medal_of_Honour

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