Thomas Andrew Knight
✓ Source-basedrisingBritish botanist (1759-1838)
ScientistsLived 1759 to 1838 · aged 78
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Thomas Andrew Knight, FRS was an English horticulturalist and botanist. He served as the president of the Royal Horticultural Society from 1811 to 1838.
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Portrait of Thomas Andrew Knight, holding an Oak branch, dated January 1837, by Edmund Ward Gill (1794-1868), Hereford Museum and Art Gallery![Arms of Knight: Argent, three pales gules within a bordure engrailed azure on a chief of the last three spurs or[1]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Knight_%28ofDownton%29_Arms.png/500px-Knight_%28ofDownton%29_Arms.png)
Arms of Knight: Argent, three pales gules within a bordure engrailed azure on a chief of the last three spurs or[1]
Elton Hall, residence of Thomas Andrew Knight, before he inherited nearby Downton Castle from his elder brotherAwards 2
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Scientists born in the 1750s 6
About this person
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Scientists
Type
Scientist
Status
deceased
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Lived 1759 to 1838 · aged 78
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