Leased by John Evelyn fromCharles II in 1663 and trashed by Peter the Great in 1698. The picture source gives a full history of the house which was badly damaged in WW2 and demolished in 1947. The has a photo of a building which formed part of the house and the has a wooden model of the house and garden.
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Sayes Court
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Peter the Great - mulberry tree
{Beneath the Imperial Russian crest:} This mulberry tree is believed to have ...
Peter the Great statue
Statue unveiled by Prince Michael of Kent, as Patron of the Peter the Great T...
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Martin Andrews
Our colleague Andew Behan writes: A little research on this man shows that he was born Martin Guy Leslie Andrews in 1943 in Lambeth. Alumnus and long-term supporter of Goodenough College. He was a ...
2 memorials
Members of Kew Guild and staff of Royal Botanic Gdns Kew lost in WW1, WW2
From the Kew Guild: "The Kew Guild was founded in 1893, as an offshoot of the Kew Mutual Improvement Society (itself created in 1871), with an intention of uniting past and present “Kewites” by mea...
1 memorial
William Andrews Nesfield
The Regent's Park plaque has the date of birth as 1794 but this contradicts all the other sources we have found, which have 1793. Nesfield was a significant Victorian garden designer who had a rep...
1 memorial
Justus von Liebig
Born Germany. Considered the founder of organic chemistry and"father of the fertilizer industry". He also was behind the company that trademarked the Oxo cube and made the invention of Marmite p...
1 memorial
John Bennet Lawes
Entrepreneur and agricultural scientist. Born at Rothamsted, Hertfordshire. He founded an experimental farm that eventually became the Rothamsted Experimental Station, and developed a superphosphat...
1 memorial
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