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Thomas Andrew Knight FRS
Thomas Andrew Knight, portrait by Solomon Cole (1806–1893), collection of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Born12 August 1759
Wormsley Grange, Herefordshire, England
Died11 May 1838
London, England
NationalityEnglish
Known forplant breeding and selection
ChildrenFrances Acton

Elizabeth Knight

Charlotte Knight
Scientific career
Fieldsbotanist
Author abbrev. (botany)T.Knight
Portrait of Thomas Andrew Knight, holding an Oak branch, dated January 1837, by Edmund Ward Gill (1794–1868), Hereford Museum and Art Gallery

Thomas Andrew Knight (1759–1838), FRS, of Elton Hall in the parish of Elton in Herefordshire (4 miles south-west of Ludlow) and later of Downton Castle (3 miles north-west of Elton), was a British horticulturalist and botanist. He served as the 2nd President of the Royal Horticultural Society (1811–1838).

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