An Indian politician and lawyer. Was the first president of India from 1950 to 1962.
a horticulturalist and an author of several gardening books in the 1930s to 1960s.
Was once a professional gardener in various private establishment, trained by his supervisor.
Was once in charge of an extensive range of greenhouses then maintained at Forest Hill by Carters Tested Seed
An English botanist and ecologist.
1943-1956, was Director of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and was responsible for the restoration of the gardens after the Second World War.
1913 DSc achieved, founding member of the British Ecological Society
1929 Professor of Botany at University College London
1946 Knighted
He was a British industrialist and horticulturalist.
Lord Aberconway took a keen interest in horticulture. Besides maintaining the family's Bodnant Garden (Conway, Wales), he was the President of the Royal Horticultural Society from 1961 to 1983 and oversaw the management of the Chelsea Flower Show. His annual assertion became famous:
"I think I can say, without fear of contradiction, that this is the finest Chelsea Flower Show ever"
gardener and author of 'Lilies' in the Amateur
Gardening Handbook No.21 (1957) p.92
a British political officer and one of the last major figures of the Great Game. His expeditions in Tibet and Assam Himalaya gave him many opportunities to pursue his hobbies of photography, butterfly collecting and trophy hunting in the high Tibetan region.
In 1913 he made an unauthorised exploration to the Tsangpo Gorges with Captain Henry Morshead of the Survey of India. Morshead was later a surveyor for the initial 1921 British Mount Everest reconnaissance expedition, along with George Mallory. Their adventures led them to the Rong Chu Valley, a gorge on the Upper Tsangpo. It was in that valley that Bailey spotted a tall blue poppy at the margin of the forest and pressed it in his notebook, now called Meconopsis baileyi.
One of Bailey's more well-known adventures occurred in 1918, when he travelled to Tashkent in Central Asia on a mission to discover the intentions of the new Bolshevik government, specifically in relation to India.
He helped Frank Kingdon-Ward and Lord Cawdor in 1924 when he was a Political Officer in Gangtok, Sikkim. Bailey arranged passports and encouraged them to search the 40 mi unexplored gap of the river to solve the riddles of the Tsangpo Gorges. Kingdon-Ward wrote a book by the same name documenting that expedition.
Fluent in Tibetan
13th Dalai Lama of Tibet (1879-1933)
Thubten Gyatso was an intellectual reformer and skillful politician. He was responsible for rebuilding Tibet's geopolitical position after the British expedition to Tibet, restoring discipline in monastic life, and increasing the number of lay officials to avoid excessive power being placed in the hands of the monks.