LC control no. | n 84205337 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Abercrombie, John, 1726-1806 |
Associated country | Great Britain Scotland |
Birth date | 1726 |
Death date | 1806-[04-15,05-02] |
Place of birth | Prestonpans (Scotland) |
Place of death | London (England) |
Profession or occupation | Gardening Horticulture Gardeners Horticulturists |
Special note | Data provided by the ESTC/BL |
Found in | His Every man his own gardener, 1767: t.p. (name not given) DNB (Abercrombie, John, 1726-1806) Mawe, Thomas. Every man his own gardener..., 1813: t.p. (John Abercrombie, sixty years a practical gardener, and author of The universal gardener and botanist) Oxford DNB online, viewed 13 February 2020 (Abercrombie, John (1726-1806), horticulturist and writer, was born in Prestonpans, near Edinburgh; went to London about 1751, and was employed first in the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, and next at Leicester House; About 1770 Abercrombie established a market garden near Hackney...later set up a nursery and market garden at Tottenham; died on 15 April or on 2 May 1806 in London) |
Associated language | eng |