George William Johnson
1802–86
Barrister and writer on gardening. Barrister, Gray’s Inn, 1836. Professor of moral and political economy at the Hindu College, Calcutta, 1839–42. Founded the Cottage Gardener (later Journal of Horticulture) in 1848.
Sources
R. Desmond 1994
ODNB
Bibliography
Desmond, Ray. 1994. Dictionary of British and Irish botanists and horticulturists including plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers. New edition, revised with the assistance of Christine Ellwood. London: Taylor & Francis and the Natural History Museum. Bristol, Pa.: Taylor & Francis.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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