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AITON, WILLIAM (1731-1793)

This article appears in Volume V01, Page 448 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ADA-AIZ
AITON, WILLIAM (1731-1793) , Scottish botanist, was
born
  near Hamilton in 1731. Having been regularly trained to the profession of a gardener, he travelled to London in 1754, and became assistant to Philip Miller, then
superintendent
  of the Physic
Garden
  at Chelsea. In 1759 he was appointed director of the newly established botanical
garden
  at Kew, where he remained until his death on the 2nd of
February
  1793. He effected many improvements at the gardens, and in 1789 he published Hortus Kewensis, a catalogue of the
plants
  there cultivated. A second and enlarged edition of the Hortus was brought out in 1810-1813 by his eldest son,
WILLIAM
  TOWNSEND
AITON
  (1766-1849), who succeeded him at Kew and was commissioned by George IV. to lay out the gardens at the Pavilion,
Brighton
 .


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