MARNOCK

Robert . b. Kintore, Aberdeen shire 12 March 1800; gardener at Bretton hall, Yorkshire; laid out Sheffield botanic garden 1834 and was the first curator; a nurseryman at Hackney; laid out garden of royal botanic society in Regent’s park, curator about 1840–62; practised as a landscape gardener 1862–79; laid out garden for prince Demidoff at San Donato near Florence; laid out Alexandra park at Hastings 1878; the most succe ful landscape gardener of his time; edited The Floricultural Magazine 1836–42 and The united gardeners’ and land stewards’ journal 1845 .; author with Richard Deakin of the first vol. of Flor i graph i a Britannica, or engravings and descriptions of the flowering plants and ferns of Britain 1837. d. Oxford and Cambridge Mansions, Marylebone road, London 15 Nov. 1889, cremated at Woking and remains deposited at Kensal Green 21 Nov. Gardeners’ Chronicle 29 April 1882 pp. 565, 567, portrait ; Gardeners’ Mag. 23 Nov. 1889 pp. 733, 744, portrait .