James Sherard
1666–1738
Apothecary and botanist. Retired from business in 1720 and purchased several properties. Lived mainly at Eltham in Kent where he cultivated valuable and rare plants and made one of the finest private gardens in England.
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ODNB.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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