Start Date [1] Headline[2] Text[3] appointed first Professor of Botany in the Cambridge in the 18th-century; nevertheless, Bradley 1724 Professor Richard Bradley (1688 - 1732) was unsuccessful in his efforts to found a Botanic Garden in Cambridge during his tenure. 1727 King George II 1727- 1760 appointed second Professor of Botany at Cambridge. Martyn donated his personal Hortus siccus (Herbarium collection) to establish the University Herbarium in 1761. This collection was to be held in the Great House at the Botanic Garden. Martyn wrote his illustrated treatise, 1733 Professor John Martyn (1699 - 1768) Historia Plantarum Rariorum, or History of Plants, 1737. 1760 to 1820. The King's ill health led to his son George becoming Prince Regent between 1760 George III 1811 - 1820. appointed third Cambridge Professor of Botany at the age of 27. He succeeded his father John Martyn as the Chair, a post he held until his death in 1825. Martin wrote Plantae 1762 Professor Thomas Martyn (1735 - 1825) Cantabrigiensis (1763) and Flora Rustica (1794). Charles Miller’s role was both botanical and managerial. Charles Miller was the son of Philip 1762 Charles Miller, first Curator of the Botanic Garden Miller of Chelsea Physic Garden. Dr Richard Walker (1679 - 1764), Vice-Master of Trinity College, Cambridge founded the original Botanic Garden in the city centre. It was five acres in size and included a lecture room in the 'Mansion House'. The Garden was set out as a typical Physic Garden created for the cultivation of herbaceous plants for use in the teaching of medical students. The Botanic Garden remained on this site until 1844 when a larger Garden was secured by John Stevens Henslow. The first garden was also referred to as the Walkerian Garden, after its founder who purchased the land and gave it to the University. The Walkerian Society is still run by 1762 Original Botanic Garden founded Cambridge horticultural students in the Botanic Garden. Thomas Martyn issued the first catalogue of plants in the Botanic Garden, Horti Botanici Cantabrigiensis, in his role as Curator. Martyn was 'one of the earliest English exponents of the Linnaean system'. He gave no lectures after 1796 'as the subject was not popular'. The 1771 First Botanic Garden catalogue teaching of formal Botany languished until his death, in 1825, at the age of 89. appointed as Curator of the first Botanic Garden. John Donn wrote several catalogues of the Garden's collection, 'Hortus Cantabrigiensis: An accented catalogue of indigenous and exotic 1790 James Donn plants cultivated in the Cambridge Botanic Garden', dating between 1796 - 1812. 1820 - 1830. His father, George III's ill health meant that George acted as Prince Regent from 1820 King George IV 1811. appointed as fourth professor of Botany at the age of 29. Henslow was Professor of Mineralogy between 1822 - 1827 before resigning the Chair, having been elected as Professor of Botany in 1825. During this period, he was also ordained as a clergyman. Henslow was interested in the growth of trees and in the nature of species. Henslow first established the Herbarium of British Flora in 1821. Henslow is best known as mentor to Charles Darwin, who studied at Christ's College, Cambridge between 1828 - 1831. It was Henslow who suggested Darwin as naturalist 1825 Professor John Stevens Henslow (1796 - 1861) on the HMS Beagle's voyage to South America. became Prime Minster (Tory). In 1853, John Lindley suggested that a new giant tree brought from California, should be named after after Wellington - Wellingtonia gigantea. Wellington had died in 1852. Eventually the species became known as Sequoiadendron giganteum, Giant Sequoia, a native of North America. The Americans had wanted to name the tree after 1830 Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington Washington but the genus name Washingtonia was already assigned to a palm. By the early 19th-century, the original city centre Botanic Garden was too small and space was needed to grow a wider range of plants, including trees. Architect Edward Lapidge drew up a 'gardenesque' design for the new site, one mile south of the city centre, on behalf of the Vice- Chancellor, William Chafy. The innovative curving paths around the Garden and the concept of a lake, systematic beds and glasshouses can still be seen in the contemporary Botanic Garden. Unfortunately for Lapidge, the cost of developing the Garden was prohibitive. Legal delays Architect Edward Lapidge commissioned to design meant that it would be over a decade later, in 1845, that planting in the western section finally 1830 New Botanic Garden began. 1830 William IV becomes King 1830 - 1870. He was succeeded by his niece, Victoria. 1830 Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey Prime Minister 1830 - 1834 A parcel of agricultural land, 16 hectares or 38-acres south of the city centre - and owned by Trinity Hall - was transferred by Act of Parliament. The original Physic Garden in Cambridge was no longer sufficient and Henslow persuaded the University that it was necessary to move to John Stevens Henslow achieves the acquisition of a a larger site. However it would be another 13 years, until the agricultural tenancy expired, that 1831 new Botanic Garden the Garden was finally available. Victoria inherits the throne of United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in 1837. She reigns 1837 Queen Victoria becomes monarch for 63 years until her death in 1901. John Stevens Henslow (Professor of Botany 1825 - 1861) had become Rector of Hitcham, Suffolk in 1839. Henslow's young deputy, Charles Babington (Professor of Botany 1861 - 1895) represented him on the Syndicate (Governing Body) established to managed the New Botanic 1844 New Botanic Garden begins Garden. Appointed as first Curator of the New Botanic Garden, Andrew Murray began planting in 1845, following the 'gardenesque-style' plans that had been drawn up a decade earlier by Edward Lapidge. At this time however, only the western section of the New Botanic Garden site was 1845 Curator, Andrew Murray, begins planting developed. Andrew Murray publishes a catalogue of 5,500 hardy Around 2,000 hardy plants had been transferred from the original Physic Garden. The task was 1850 plants completed by his successor, James Stratton, who took over in 1850. 1850 Andrew Murray dies Curator, Andrew Murray dies after falling into Hobson's Conduit and contracting pneumonia. 1850 James Stratton takes over as Curator of the Botanic Garden following Andrew Murray's premature death. James Stratton oversees the building of the first glasshouse range on the north-eastern 1855 First Glasshouse range built boundary of the Botanic Garden succeeds John Stevens Henslow as Professor of Botany in 1861. Together with Henslow, Babington helped to plan the new Botanic Garden. Babington wrote several works including Manual of British Botany (1843) and Flora of Cambridgeshire (1860). He was editor of Annals 1861 Professor Charles Cardale Babington (1808 - 1895) and Magazine of Natural History. Start Date [1] Headline[2] Text[3] appointed as Curator of the Botanic Garden. Mudd has been called the 'father of British 1865 William Mudd (1829 - 1879) Lichenology'. The Botanic Garden's first Rock Garden, now known as the Terrace Garden adjacent to the 1872 Original Rock Garden is completed Glasshouse Range, was finally completed Curator of the Botanic Garden for 40 years (1879 - 1919). Richard Lynch was extremely influential during his curatorship at the Cambridge University Botanic Garden. It was Lynch who developed the glasshouse collections and the first Bamboo Garden in Britain. He was also the 1879 Richard Irwin Lynch first to grow and name new plants described as Cantab. Richard Irwin Lynch and Arthur Tansley - later Sir Arthur 'Father of Ecology' - develop 'native 1879 Ecological plantings begin plantings'. Today these are known as ecological plantings. The Glasshouse range begun by James Stratton, in 1855, is rebuilt by James Boyd and Sons of 1888 Glasshouse Range reconstructed Paisley using white painted pinewood. Zoologist, William Bateson, publishes book on the mechanism of heredity supporting Darwin's theory of evolution. The science of plant genetics flourishes in Cambridge over the following years. Colleagues include Edith Saunders (Newnham), RC Punnett (Gonville and Caius), RH Biffen (Emmanuel) and Miss E Kilby. Bateson uses land in the eastern section of the Botanic 1894 William Bateson and colleagues Garden. appointed Professor of Botany at Cambridge. Botany had been rather neglected as a subject until Marshall-Ward took the Chair. It was Marshall-Ward that commissioned the Botany School building, now the Department of Plant Sciences. The building was officially opened in 1904 by 1895 Professor Harry Marshall-Ward (1854 - 1906) King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra. William Bateson and Edith Saunders rent an allotment and use the glasshouses at the Botanic William Bateson awarded a grant from the Royal Garden for plant genetics experiments following the award of a grant from the Evolution 1897 Society committee of the Royal Society. awarded a prestigious Veitch Memorial Medal by the Veitch Memorial Trust. Lynch was unusually honoured, receiving the award twice; a second Medal was awarded to him in 1923. The Veitch prize honours 'persons of any nationality who have made an outstanding 1901 Richard Irwin Lynch contribution to the advancement and improvement of the science and practice of horticulture'. 1901 King Edward VII Edward took over from his mother Queen Victoria in 1901 and reigned until his death in 1910. appointed Professor of Botany at Cambridge (1906 - 1936). Seward co-edited 'More letters of 1906 Professor Albert Charles Seward (1863 - 1941) Charles Darwin' with Darwin's son Francis in 1903. The ornamental gates from the original Botanic Garden were moved to the new Botanic Garden 1909 Wrought iron Gates moved entrance on Trumpington Road in 1909. 1910 George V 1910 - 1936 Sculptor Dr Robert Tait Mackenzie produced a bronze memorial to World War I.