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WILLIAM AITON (1731-1793)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 448 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM AITON (1731-1793)  , Scottish botanist, was born near Hamilton in 1731 . Having been regularly trained to the profession of a gardener, he travelled to
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London in 1754, and became assistant to Philip Miller, then superintendent of the Physic Garden at
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Chelsea . In 1759 he was appointed director of the newly established botanical garden at
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Kew, where he remained until his
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death on the 2nd of
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February 1793 . He effected many improvements at the gardens, and in 1789 he published Hortus Kewensis, a catalogue of the
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plants there cultivated . A second and enlarged edition of the Hortus was brought out in 1810-1813 by his eldest son, WILLIAM TOWNSEND AITON (1766-1849), who succeeded him at Kew and was commissioned by George IV. to
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lay out the gardens at the
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Pavilion,
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Brighton .

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