> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 57](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33264746) of TL-2 Suppl. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/111-1) LSID 111-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1350149) QID Q1350149 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Aiton, William Townsend|first entry]] for this author ### Author \* Aiton, William Townsend (1766-1849), British gardener and botanist, son of W. Aiton, went to schools at Chiswick and Camberwell, from 1782 with his father at Kew learning gardening and botany, succeeded his father in charge of Kew Gardens, appointed "His Majesty's gardener" at Kew and Richmond 1796, also in charge of laying out gardens in Brighton, in London (Buckingham palace), Windsor, sometime "by Royal warrant Director-general of all Royal Gardens and Plantations", later in charge only of the "Botanic Garden and Pleasure grounds at Kew" until 1841. **Abbreviated name**: *W.T. Aiton* \[standard form in IPNI: *W.T.Aiton*\] #### Herbarium and types See under W. Aiton TL-2/1: 25. Most of the types of the Hortus kewensis ed.2 are at [[Collection BM|BM]] (mainly via J. Banks and R. Brown). – Library and herbarium sold by Foster & Son, London 4 Sep 1851 (Desmond). – See also M.T. Stieber et al. (1981). – For a mss. "Descriptiones Liliorum et Palmarum" by C. Linnaeus f. at [[Collection LINN|LINN]] see Linné fil., TL-2/3: 112 (sub **Composite works**). #### Bibliography and biography AG 3: 342; Barnhart 1: 26; BB p. 3; BM 1: 22; Bossert p. 5; Bret. p. 191, 250; Dawson p. 9-12 (Banks corr.); Desmond p. 5; DNB 1: 208; DSB 1: 89-90; Henrey 414, 415-416; Hortus 3: 1187; HU 2: 582 (index), no. 747; IH 2: 29; Jackson p. 412; Kew 1: 28; Langman p. 70; MW p. 3; NI p. 2; Plesch p. 124; PR 79, ed. 1: 110; Rehder 1: 53, 5(index): 8; RS p. 72; SK 1: clxvi; SO 755c; TL-2/1-6 indexes; Tucker 1: 31; Zander ed. 10, p. 627, ed. 11, p. 712. #### Biofile - Allan, M., The Hookers of Kew 88, 96, 109, 140, 151, 187. 1967. - Anon., Bot. Zeit. 8: 288. 1850 (W.T. Aiton died 9 0ct 1849 "im K. Schlosse zu Kensington"); Proc. Linn. Soc. 2: 82-83. 1850 (death), also in Allg. Gart. Z. 18: 128. 1850. - Bridson, G.D.R. et al., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl. 255.70, 269.38, 291.14. 1980. - Carr, D.J., and S.G.M., eds., People and plants in Australia 156. 1981. - Carter, H.B., Sir Joseph Banks 1743-1820. see index (numerous entries), s.d.; Sir Joseph Banks and... Kew 11, 16, 22, 56 n., 62-63, 67, 80, 88. 1974. - Coats, A.M., The plant hunters 215, 217, 220. 1969. - Dawson, W.R., Smith papers 8. 1934. - De Beer, G., The sciences were never at war 128. 1960. - Ewan, J. et al., Short hist. bot. U.S. 34. 1969. - Fletcher, H.R., The story of the Royal Horticultural Society 1804-1968: 526 \[index\]. 1969. - Gilbert, J.C., Kew Guild J. 8(71): 688-693. 1967 (biogr., portr., formal contract as gardener at K 24 Apr 1796). - Gilbert, L., The Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney 28, 36, 50, 193. s.d. - Hall, N., Botanists of the Eucalypts, Melbourne 1978, p. 7 (A. coll. type of a cultivated specimen of Eucalyptus marginata J.E. Smith 1802). - Healey, B.J., The plant hunters 92, 156, 158. s.d. - Hornschuch, C.T., Flora 7(2): 445-446. 1824 (on theft of plants at Kew; W.T. Aiton in court but declared not guilty). - Lee, I., Early expl. Australia 1925 (see index, 11 entries). - Lefebvre, E. and J.G. de Bruyn, Martinus van Marum 6-8, 15, 17, 56-59, 164, 315. 1976. - Mabberley, D.J., Jupiter botanicus see index. 1985. - Milner, J.D., Cat. portr. Kew 3. 1906. - Nelmes, E. and W. Cuthbertson, Curtis's Bot. Mag. dedic. 1827-1927. 6-8. 1931(1932) (portr.). - Schultes, J.A., Flora 8(1), Beilage 1: 28-29. 1825 (visit to Kew, critical remarks on identifications by W.T. Aiton). - Smith, R.C., Hist. photogr. 7(1): 43-50. 1983 (Nicéphore Niépce in England). - Stearn, W.T., Nat. Hist. Mus. S. Kensington 281-282. 1981. - Steenis-Kruseman, M.J. van, *in* Forbes, R.J., ed., Mart. v. Marum 3: 137, 146-147, 164, 170. 1971. - Stieber, M.T. et al., Huntia 4(1): 17. 1981 (letter to Jane Porter Ester at MU). - Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Kew Bull. 1891(60): 301-305. (drawings and plant record books of W.T.A. came to K short after his death; "on his death in 1849, the whole of his immense correspondence was burnt by his brother John Aiton..."; further biogr. info.). #### Composite works F.A. Bauer, *Delin. exot. pl. Kew* has on the t.p. "published by W.T. Aiton" (see TL-2/363). Aiton did not contribute any text to this work, see G. Meynell, Arch. nat. Hist. 11: 217 (note 9). 1983. ### Publications ##### n.18.985. An epitome of the second edition of Hortus kewensis **Title** *An epitome of the second edition of Hortus kewensis*, for the use of practical gardeners; to which is added, a selection of esculent vegetables and fruits cultivated in the Royal Gardens at Kew... London (printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster Row) 1814. Oct. (in half sheets). **Abbreviated title**: *Epitome ed.2 Hort. kew.* **Notes** *Issue (1)*: 1814, p. \[i-iv\], 1-330, \[1-46\], n.v., *Copy*: at K, fide Henrey no. 415. *Issue (2)*: Apr 1814 (p. \[iii\]: Mar 1814), p. \[i\]-xv, \[xvi\], \[1\]-376. *Copies*: B-S, BM (fide Henrey), G, NY, WU. – See Henrey no. 416. *Ref*.: Britten, J., J. Bot. 50 (suppl.3): 13-15. 1902 (details on the two issues).