The site of the Westminster Physic Garden
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.33928/bib.2024.093Keywords:
Morgan; How(e); Morison; Phytologia; Pinax; AbbeyAbstract
There has been a considerable amount of speculation about the site of the Westminster Physic Garden (WPG) over the years. The actual site is here defined as the area bound by Great College Street (Dead Wall) to the north, Bowling Alley to the west, Wood Street to the south and Mill Bank to the east. The background to the setting up of the WPG is discussed in the context of How(e)'s Phytologia Britannica, 1650, and Merrett's Pinax, 1666, and the end of the English Civil war.
References
Burnby, J.G.L. 1994. Some early London Physic Gardens. Pharmaceutical Historian 24, no.4.
Clarke, W.A. 1900. First Records of British Flowering Plants. 2nd ed. London: West, Newman & Co.
Gregory, S. 2023. Edward Morgan and the Westminster Physic Garden. Garden History. 51(1):54-66.
Gunther, R.T. 1922. Early British Botanists and their Gardens. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Harvey, J.H. 1992. Westminster Abbey: The Infirmarer's Garden. Garden History. 20(2):97-115.
Horsman, F. 2023. Edward Morgan (c.1615-1689) and his Botanical Pupil, Edward Lhwyd (1660?-1709). British & Irish Botany 5(3): 2023.
Jeffers, R.H. 1953. Edward Morgan and the Westminster Physic Garden. Proceedings of the Linnean Society, 164:102-133.
Merrett, C. 1666. Pinax Rerum Naturalium Britannicarum. London.
Morison, R. 1672. Plantarum umbelliferarum....Oxford.
Oswald, P.H. 2022. Edward Morgan (c.1619-c.1689) and his Hortus Siccus: an early record of Welsh plants. Archives of Natural History, 49(1):27-40.
Pearman, D.A. 2017. The Discovery of the Native Flora of Britain & Ireland. Bristol.
Plukenet, L. 1696. Almagestum botanicum. London.
Raven, C.E. 1947/1948. Thomas Lawson's Notebook. Pro. Linn. Soc. Lond. 160:3-12.
Rushton, N.S. 2002 Spatial Aspects of the Almonry Site and the changing priorities of Poor Relief at Westminster Abbey c.1290-1540. Architectural History 45:66-91.
Webster, C. 1967. The College of Physicians: “Solomon's House” in Commonwealth England. Bulletin of the History of Medicine. Sep-Oct; 41(5):393-414.
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2024 F. Horsman
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Copyright and licence: Authors (or their employers) retain their copyright in articles and images published in British & Irish Botany and are not required to assign this to the Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland (BSBI). All that BSBI requires from authors is a license to publish the article in British & Irish Botany and make it freely available to all in pdf format under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License, which also enables BSBI to reproduce components of the article in other BSBI outputs (eg. BSBI News, the BSBI website and/or the BSBI News & Views blog) for publicity purposes. The licence code can be accessed here:
