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Probationer Gardener at RBGE, went on to post in Kingston, Jamaica.

Nurseryman and external lecturer at RBGE. Apple variety bred by and named after him.

After graduating with a degree in Botany from the University of Edinburgh in 1951, Andrew John Charles Grierson (1929-1990) was appointed Scientific Officer at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. A taxonomist, he specialised in Compositae and the Floras of Turkey and Bhutan. (From Obituary by I.C. Hedge and D.G. Long in the Edinburgh Journal of Botany, v.51(2), iii-vii, 1994 http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=7472248)

Robert Kaye Greville was an English botanist, mycologist and bryologist. He was also an excellent illustrator.