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Henry Phillips ( 1779 – 8 March 1840) was a botanist, horticultural writer and landscape gardener from the seaside resort of Brighton in England. 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. ==Life== Phillips was born in around 1779 in the West Sussex village of Henfield, possibly to James and Ann Philips who had a son named Henry baptised at Barcombe, East Sussex, on 15 October 1780.〔 The first 40 years of his life were spent in London and Sussex: he worked for a bank in Worthing and lived in the town, then moved to Brighton with his wife who he had married in 1798 or 1800.〔〔 In 1815 they moved to the Bayswater area of London, where Phillips opened "an academy for young gentlemen" and taught there.〔〔 He and his wife returned to Brighton in 1823 and lived at Bedford Square on the seafront.〔 Later they moved to nearby Regent Place.〔 During his time in Worthing and London, Phillips developed a strong interest in botany, horticulture and landscape gardening.〔 By the 1820s, he was both locally and nationally known for his landscape gardening work and his writing, and he regularly gave botanical lectures in Brighton.〔 His first book, ''Pomarium Britannicum'', was published in 1820, and he wrote several others in the 1820s.〔 He joined The Royal Horticultural Society and, in 1825, the Linnean Society of London.〔〔〔 In 1826, when painter John Constable came to Brighton on one of his regular visits to help improve his wife's ill health, he met Phillips and they became friends; Phillips advised him on the correct plants to paint in the hedgerows he was depicting in his latest painting, ''The Cornfield''.〔 In early 1831, the ''Brighton Herald'' newspaper stated that Phillips was due to sail on 1 February of that year to Caracas, where he would be appointed as the official botanist of Simón Bolívar's estate. Whether he did travel to South America or not is unknown, but Bolívar had died in December 1830. Around the same time, Phillips is believed to have designed the conservatory at Edward Cross's Surrey Zoological Gardens, which opened in 1831. Phillips died at 26 Russell Square, Brighton, on 8 March 1840 at the age of 61. He was suffering from enteritis.〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Henry Phillips (horticulturist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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