> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 56](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33264745) of TL-2 Suppl. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/110-1) LSID 110-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q465898) QID Q465898 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Aiton, William|first entry]] for this author ### Author \* Aiton, William (1731-1793), British (Scottish-born) gardener and botanist, came to England 1754, employed at Chelsea as market gardener, superintendent of the Kew Botanical Gardens ("Gardener to his Majesty") 1759-1793, became acquainted with Sir Joseph Banks 1764. **Abbreviated name**: *Aiton* \[standard form in IPNI: *Aiton*\] #### Herbarium and types see TL-2/1: 25. – D.A. Allan (1935) mentions "Aiton" specimens at [[Collection LIV|LIV]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 24 (d. 1 Feb 1793 at Kew); BB p. 3; BM 1: 22; Bossert p. 5; Bret. p. 188; Dawson p. 9; Desmond p. 5; DNB 1: 207; Dryander 3: 95; DSB 1: 88-89 (G. Taylor); DU 5; Frank 3 (Anh.): 4; GF p. 47; Henrey 3: 4, no. 413; Hortus 3: 1187; HU 2(1): cvii-cviii (W.T. Stearn), cxcix; IF p. 675; IH 2: 29; Jackson p. 412; Kew 1: 28; KR p. 144 (Dryander), 656-657 (Solander); Langman p. 70; Lasègue p. 178, 323; Moebius p. 421; MW p. 3; NI 9; Plesch p. 124; PR 78, 124, ed. 1: 109; Rehder 1: 53; RS p. 72-73; SK 4: clxvi; Sotheby no. 6; TL-1: 4; TL-2/see indexes 1-7; Tucker 1: 31; Zander ed. 10, p. 627, ed. 11, p. 712. #### Biofile - Allan, M., The Hookers of Kew 109. 1967. - Allen, D.A., Handbook and guide to the herbarium collections in the Public Museums Liverpool 65. 1935 (A. specimens at LIV). - Anon., Kew Bull. 1910(8): 306-308 (the tomb of W. Aiton in Kew Churchyard; additional details on his biography). - Barnhart, J.H., J. New York Bot. Gard. 22(259): 127. 1921. - Berkeley, E. and D. Smith Berkeley, Dr. John Mitchell 232-233, 245-246. 1974. - Bridson, G.D.R. et al., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl. 138.36, 229.461, 255.35, 291.14. 1980. - Britten, J., J. Bot. 35: 481-485. 1897 (species descr. in *Hort. kew.*), 50 (suppl.3): 1-16. 1912 (major source for the history of the *Hort. kew.*). - Cameron, H.C., Sir Joseph Banks 62, 62 note, 78, 80, 81, 163. 1952. - Candolle, Alph. de, Phytographie 391. 1880 (on herb. mat.). - Carr, D.J., Sydney Parkinson 52, 55, 113. 1983. - Carr, D.J. and S.G.M., eds., People and plants in Australia 144, 150, 166, 236. 1981. - Carter, H.B., Sir Joseph Banks 1743-1820, see index, \[s.d.\]; Sir Joseph Banks and... Kew. 56 n, 65. 1974. - Coats, A.M., Huntia 2: 185-187. 1965 (portr. of W. Aiton by John Zoffany). - Darlington, W., Memorials 341, 562 (biogr. note). 1849. - Dawson, W.R., The Banks letters 9. 1958. - Ewan, J., Proc. Amer. philos. Soc. 103(6): 810. Dec 1959 (in paper on Fougeroux de Bondaroy). - Fisher, John, The origins of garden plants 168, 169, 243. 1982. - Fletcher, H.R., The story of the Royal Horticultural Society 1804-1968, p. 2-4, 29-30, 55. 1969. - Fournier, E., *in* H.E. Baillon, Dict. bot. 1: 83. 1876. - Gilbert, L., The Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney p. 5. s.d. - Hemsley, W.B., Kew Guild J. 1902 (Dec): 87-90 (portr.). - Huxley, L., Life letters J.D. Hooker i, 341, 345, 348. 1918 (house in Kew Gardens). - Johnson, G.W., Hist. Engl. Gardening 298-299. 1829. - Jussieu, A.J.L., Dict. Sci. méd., Biogr. méd. 1: 81. 1820. - Kuntze, O., Rev. gen. pl. 1: cxxiii. 1891. - Lack, E., Die Abenteuer des Sir Joseph Banks 70. 1985. - Mabberley, D.J., Taxon 29(5-6): 599-602. 1980 (Salisbury's review of W. Aiton, Hort. kew. 1789); Jupiter botanicus 39, 143, 182. 1985. - Milner, J.D., Cat. portr. Kew 2. 1906. - Murray, G., Hist. Coll. Nat. Hist. Depts. Brit. Mus. 1: 129. 1904 (types in Banksian herb., mss. descriptions), see also B.D. Woodward, id. 1: 23, 25. 1904 on plates *Hort. kew.* - O'Brian, P., Joseph Banks 178, 204, 232, 253, 293. 1987. - Smith, E., Life Joseph Banks 93. 1911. - Smith J.E., Rees Cycl. 1 \[alph. order\]. 1819. - Smith, W., Silent submission to the Will of God: a funeral sermon... on... the death of W. Aiton, London 1793. - Stafleu, F.A., Taxon 12: 53-55. 1963 (dates of publ. Hort. kew., sources; Introd. to reprint A.L. Jussieu, Gen. pl. xxxiv. 1964; Linnaeus and the Linnaeans 231, 236-238. 1971; *in* Daniels and Stafleu, Taxon 21: 26. 1972 (portr.)). - Stafleu, F.A. ed., Taxon \[see numerous entries in Taxon, index vols. 1-30. 1985, compiled by R.M. Lowden.\] - Stearn, W.T., Nat. Hist. Mus. S. Kensington 281-282. 1981. - Steenis-Kruseman, M.J. van, Fl. males. Bull. 16: 821. 1961 (letter J.F. Jacquin to his father: dispatched 7 Aug 1789 copy of Hort. kew. to Vienna; not yet available in the trade, this to be set at Sep 1789). - Stieber, M.T., Huntia 3(2): 122. 1979 (A. mentioned in Chase mss. pertinent grass coll.). - Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Kew Bull. 1891(60): 298-299. (biogr. details; A. "was engaged by the Dowager Princess to establish at Kew a Botanic, or as it was then called, a Physic Garden. John Haverfield was the chief gardener").