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Henry Phillips
English botanist (1779-1840) · Scientists · Died at 61
Henry Phillips was a botanist, horticultural writer and landscape gardener from the seaside resort of Brighton in England.
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Phillips laid out the Kemp Town Enclosures in 1828.
Phillips' Athenaeum scheme of 1825 was not executed, but the associated Oriental Place development (west side pictured) went ahead.
The gardens of Palmeira Square now occupy the site of the ill-fated Anthaeum.
Floral Emblems (1825) published by Saunders & OtleyAbout this person
After spending time as a banker and teacher in London and Sussex, he came to national attention for his botanical articles and books, and was renowned for his landscape gardening work in Brighton during its period of rapid growth. In the 1820s he became involved in several major schemes in the town and neighbouring Hove, encompassing gardens, conservatories and similar. His grandiose Anthaeum project, an elaborate indoor botanical garden topped by "the largest dome in the world", ended in disaster when the structure spectacularly collapsed just before its official opening.
