Frederick William Thomas Burbidge
1847–1905
Horticultural writer and explorer. Studied at the Royal Horticultural Society gardens at Chiswick, 1868; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 1868–70. Wrote under the pseudonym "Veronica" for the magazine Garden, 1870–7. Sent by the nursery firm James Veitch & Sons as a collector to Borneo, 1877–9. Curator, botanical gardens of Trinity College, Dublin, from 1879; keeper of the college park from 1894. Wrote on horticulture.
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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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