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 Unsung heroes who have changed our world.
The Plant Hunters were not just botanists, they were adventurers and explorers. They had to be tough to survive the conditions they faced in far-flung corners of the world. They survived shipwrecks, sieges and slavery and battled with pirates, escaped convicts and hostile natives.
They were real heroes of their time.
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Date of Birth - 1817
Entered the service of the East India Company as an assistant surgeon. He was appointed the curator of the Museum of the Asiatic Society in 1840. He spent a year taking a party of European recruits to Afghanistan. They were held in a siege, eventually captured and almost sold into slavery, but managed to get back to British forces.
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Read more... [Thomas Thomson]
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Date of Birth - 1737
Although not a plant collector Forsyth made a major contribution to British horticulture publishing early works on arboriculture and the management of fruit trees. He was one of the founder members of the Royal Horticulturual Society.
Forsyth went to London as a young man in 1763 to work at Syon House and later to Apothicaries Garden in Chelsea eventually becoming it's Curator in 1771. Under his direction many areas of the garden were replanted and he started to exchange plants and seeds internationally. In 1774 he built the first ever rock garden.
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Read more... [William Forsyth]
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