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William Kerr (gardener)
William Kerr (died 1814〔Ray Desmond and Christine Ellwood, eds. ''Dictionary of British and Irish Botanists and Horticulturists'' (CRC Press), 1994, ''s.v.'' "Kerr, William".〕) was a Scottish gardener and plant hunter, the first Western professional full-time plant collector〔He was preceded by James Cunningham (died 1709), a surgeon with the East India Company, who first visited China in 1698, according to Julia Brittain, ''The Plant Lover's Companion: Plants, People & Places'' 2006, ''s.v.'' "Cunningham, James".〕 active in China.〔J.E.H.M. Cox, ''Plant Hunting in China'' 1945:49.〕 He also collected in Java and Luzon in the Philippines.〔His manuscript journal of his expedition in Luzon, 1805, is conserved in the British Library, according to Desmond and Ellwood 1994〕 Among the plants he sent back to Kew Gardens was the vigorous shrub, at first cosseted in greenhouses, named in his honour, ''Kerria''.〔Received in 1804. By 1814 it was listed in John Bartram's catalogue in Philadelphia, and by 1830, according to John Claudius Loudon "was so common as to be found in the gardens of even labourers' cottages". The single-flowered, wild version was a later introduction. (James R. Cothran, ''Gardens and Historic Plants of the Antebellum South'' (of South Carolina Press ), 2003:213).〕
Kerr sent back to Britain examples of 238 plants new to European gardeners and to science, without, it appears, stirring far from the European trading sites of Canton and Macao, or Manila.
A native of Hawick in the Scottish Borders, he was a gardener at Kew, where he was noted by Sir Joseph Banks, and, following instruction by Banks,〔((State Library of New South Wales) Draft instructions received by William Kerr from Sir Joseph Banks, 18 April 1803 )〕 sent to China in 1804. He remained eight years. Kerr's finds, discovered in local Chinese gardens and plant nurseries, included ''Euonymus japonicus'', ''Lilium lancifolium'', ''Pieris japonica'', ''Nandina domestica'', ''Begonia grandis'' and the white-flowered ''Rosa banksiae'', named for his patron's wife.〔Brittain 2006, ''s.v.'' "Kerr, William".〕
Sent to Colombo, Ceylon in 1812, to be superintendent of gardens on Slave Island and at King's House,〔Desmond and Ellwood 1994.〕 he died there in 1814, unable "to prosecute his work in consequence of some evil habits he had contracted, as unfortunate as they were new to him," as a notice in ''The Chinese Repository'' reported〔Quoted Eliot Tozer, "On the trail of E.H. Wilson," ''Horticulture'' November 1994:51.〕 some time after his premature death, apparently alluding to opium addiction.
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