| LC control no. | n 50015525 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Wilson, Ernest Henry, 1876-1930 |
| Variant(s) | Wilson, Chinese, 1876-1930 Wilson, E. H. (Ernest Henry), 1876-1930 Wilson, Ernest H. (Ernest Henry), 1876-1930 Wilson, Ernest (Ernest Henry), 1876-1930 |
| Associated country | England United States |
| Birth date | 1876-02-15 |
| Death date | 1930-10-15 |
| Place of birth | Chipping Campden (England) |
| Place of death | Worcester (Mass.) |
| Field of activity | Plant collecting Botany |
| Affiliation | Arnold Arboretum College of Advanced Technology (Birmingham, England) Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew James Veitch & Sons Veitch's Coombe Woods Nursery |
| Profession or occupation | Plant collectors Explorers Botanists |
| Found in | His Plantae Wilsonianae ... 1913. His Plantae Wilsonianae, 1988: CIP t.p. (E. H. Wilson) Wikipedia, viewed April 6, 2023: Ernest Henry Wilson (Ernest Henry "Chinese" Wilson (15 February 1876 - 15 October 1930), better known as E. H. Wilson, was a notable British plant collector and explorer who introduced a large range of about 2000 Asian plant species to the West; some sixty bear his name. Wilson was born in Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire but the family soon moved to Shirley, Warwickshire, where they set up a floristry business. He left school early for employment at the local nursery of Messrs. Hewitt, Warwickshire, as apprentice gardener, and, aged 16, at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens; there he also studied at Birmingham Municipal Technical School in the evenings, receiving the Queen's Prize for botany. In 1897 he began work at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, where he won the Hooker Prize for an essay on conifers. He then accepted a position as Chinese plant collector with the firm of James Veitch & Sons. After six months at Veitch's Coombe Woods Nursery, Wilson travelled west towards China. In subsequent years he became a collector for Sargent at the Arnold Arboretum, and made further expeditions to China in 1907, 1908, and 1910, as well as to Japan (1911-1916), where he collected 63 named forms of cherry blossom. Wilson and his wife died in Worcester, Massachusetts, on 15 October 1930 as the result of an automobile accident.) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Henry_Wilson#:~:text=Ernest%20Henry%20%22Chinese%22%20Wilson%20(,some%20sixty%20bear%20his%20name.> |
| Associated language | eng |
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