John Tradescant the Elder (portrait attributed to Cornelis de Neve
Born
1570s
Suffolk
Died
15–16 April 1638
Nationality
English
Occupation(s)
Naturalist, gardener, collector and traveller
John Tradescant the Elder (/trəˈdɛskənt/; c. 1570s – 15–16 April 1638), father of John Tradescant the Younger, was an English naturalist, gardener, collector and traveller. On 18 June 1607 he married Elizabeth Day of Meopham in Kent, England. She had been baptised on 22 August 1586 and was the daughter of Jeames Day, also of Meopham.
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JohnTradescanttheElder ( /trəˈdɛskənt/; c. 1570s – 15–16 April 1638), father of JohnTradescantthe Younger, was an English naturalist, gardener, collector...
JohnTradescant may refer to: JohnTradescanttheelder (1570s–1638) his son JohnTradescantthe younger (1608–1662) This disambiguation page lists articles...
and the 19th century botanist John Loudon was of the opinion that the Persian lilac was introduced into English gardens by JohnTradescanttheelder in...
by JohnTradescanttheelder and his son in a building called The Ark, and a botanical collection in the grounds of the building. Turret House, the family...
wandering trad. The genus is named after the English naturalists and explorers JohnTradescanttheElder (c. 1570s – 1638) and JohnTradescantthe Younger (1608–1662)...
coverage. The Gardens, covering 42 acres (170,000 m2), date from the early 17th century and were laid out by JohnTradescanttheelder. Tradescant visited...
visited by John Tradescanttheelder, who conducted a survey of an island situated opposite the monastery. This island became known to the British as "Rose...
monuments were preserved, including the tombs of some of the gardeners and plantsmen JohnTradescanttheelder and his son of the same name, and of Admiral William...
their Tradescant relations are now attributed. Thomas also worked for the Crown between 1629 and 1637. Oliver de Critz (1626–51) was a son of Johnthe Younger...
catalogue of the 17th century collection of JohnTradescanttheElder and his son JohnTradescantthe Younger was the founding core of the Ashmolean Museum...
Theophrastus Lucullus Tiberius Pliny theElder Pliny the Younger Pacello da Mercogliano JohnTradescanttheelder and his son of the same name Carolus Clusius André...
form the foundation of the British Museum. JohnTradescanttheElder (circa 1570s–1638) was a gardener, naturalist, and botanist in the employ of the Duke...
already grown by JohnTradescanttheElder, and C. × loretii, a 19th-century introduction. Cultivars (those marked agm have gained the Royal Horticultural...
out by JohnTradescanttheElder, were redesigned twice in the 18th century. First, under the London banker James Colebrooke, (who bought the estate from...
Bachet de Méziriac, French mathematician (born 1581) April 15/16 – JohnTradescanttheelder, English botanist (born c. 1570s) October 21 – Willem Blaeu, Dutch...
1609. The next historically verifiable home of the manuscript was in the museum of JohnTradescant, theelder, who then passed it on to his son John Tradescant...
that both JohnTradescantthe Younger and his father, JohnTradescanttheElder, were intended by Linnaeus. The ending "-on" may derive from the neuter Greek...
dried rays. In the middle of the seventeenth century, JohnTradescanttheelder created a wunderkammer (called Tradescant's Ark) in which he displayed,...
David Chater (1953), journalist JohnTradescanttheElder (c. 1570-1638) JohnTradescantthe Younger (1608–1662), son of the above, both botanists Cuthbert...
stopped at the Cape of Good Hope. In 1631, the English gardener JohnTradescanttheelder bought seeds from Rene Morin in Paris and introduced the plant to...
English gardener and broadcaster JohnTradescanttheElder (1570s–1638), English naturalist and gardener JohnTradescantthe younger (1608–1662), English...
salutiferous to mankind." The pomegranate had been introduced as an exotic to England the previous century, by JohnTradescanttheElder, but the disappointment...