| LC control no. | nb2014019083 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Don, George, 1798-1856 |
| Associated country | Great Britain Scotland |
| Located | Edinburgh (Scotland) London (England) |
| Birth date | 17980517 |
| Death date | 18560225 |
| Place of birth | Forfar (Scotland) |
| Field of activity | Horticulture Botany Plant collecting |
| Affiliation | Chelsea Physic Garden |
| Profession or occupation | Gardeners Botanists Plant collectors |
| Special note | Do not confuse with his father George Don, 1764-1814 [no2008117074], also a botanist |
| Found in | A general system of gardening and botany, 1831-1838: t.p. (George Don) Oxford DNB online, 19 Aug. 2014 (George Don (1798-1856), botanist and plant collector, was born at Doo Hillock, Forfarshire, Scotland, on 17 May 1798, the eldest of the five sons of George Don (1764-1814), nurseryman, who discovered many highland plants new to Scotland, and principal gardener (1802-6) at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh; after horticultural experience in the nursery of Messrs Dickson at Broughton, near Edinburgh, he worked from 1816 to 1821 as foreman gardener in the Chelsea Physic Garden; in December 1821 he began a voyage with Captain Edward Sabine to Madeira, Sierra Leone, São Tomé, the West Indies, and Brazil, his task everywhere to collect seeds, plants, bulbs, and herbarium specimens for the Horticultural Society's garden; he died in Kensington on 25 February 1856) |
| Associated language | eng |
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