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John Tradescant the Elder

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On all his trips he collected seeds and bulbs, from which he assembled a collection of curiosities of natural history and ethnography which he housed in a large house, "The Ark", in
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in Kent, England. She had been baptised on 22 August 1586 and was the daughter of Jeames Day, a Vicar, also of Meopham.
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He is buried in the churchyard of St-Mary-at-Lambeth, as is his son. The churchyard is now established as the
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CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names: Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms, Synonyms, and Etymology
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in 1620, returned to the Low Countries on Buckingham's behalf in 1624, and finally went to
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to be Keeper of his Majesty's Gardens, Vines, and Silkworms at his queen's minor palace,
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with Buckingham. After Buckingham's assassination in 1628, he was engaged in 1630 by
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John Tradescant was probably born in Suffolk. He began his career as head gardener to
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The Tradescant collection, which was added to significantly by Tradescant's son,
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in 1618 (his own account of the expedition survives in his collection), to the
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Strange Blooms: The Curious Lives and Adventures of the John Tradescants
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Tradescant's Rarities: Essays on the Foundation of the Ashmolean Museum
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The Tradescants. Their Plants, Gardens and Museum 1570–1662
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In 1623, Tradescant became gardener to the royal favourite
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for fruit trees in 1610/11. He was kept on by Robert's son
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The John Tradescants: Gardeners to the Rose and Lily Queen
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Cornelis de Neve
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John Tradescant the Younger
Meopham
Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury
Hatfield House
Low Countries
William
Salisbury House
St Augustine's Abbey
Edward Lord Wotton
George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham
New Hall, Essex
Burley-on-the-Hill
Nikolo-Korelsky Monastery
Russia
Levant
Algiers
Barbary pirates
Paris
La Rochelle
Île de Ré
King Charles I
Oatlands Palace

Wenceslas Hollar
Lambeth
Cabinet of Curiosity
museum

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