The Victoria Medal of Honour (VMH) is awarded to British horticulturists resident in the United Kingdom whom the Royal Horticultural Society Council considers...
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The Medal of Honor is the United States of America's highest military honor. Medal of Honor or Medal of Honour may also refer to: Medal of Honour (Hong...
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Elizabeth Medal of Honour will join the Victoria Medal of Honour, which was established in 1897 with the consent of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, to enable...
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Victoria Medal may refer to: Victoria Medal (geography), by the Royal Geographical Society Victoria Medal of Honour, by the Royal Horticultural Society...
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World colleague Monty Don. In March 2018 Klein was awarded the Victoria Medal of Honour by the Royal Horticultural Society. In May 2024 Klein revealed...
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the guard as a mark of respect, an honour similar to the Vigil of the Princes at the lying in state of King George V. On the day of Elizabeth's funeral...
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Royal Horticultural Society (redirect from Fellow of the Royal Horticultural Society)
of special recognition in the field of horticulture with the Victoria Medal of Honour, established in 1897. There are only 63 holders of this medal at...
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Lionel de Rothschild (born 1882) (category Victoria Medal of Honour recipients)
as the creator of Exbury Gardens by the New Forest in Hampshire. He was the eldest son of Leopold de Rothschild (1845–1917) and a part of the prominent...
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David Bowes-Lyon (category Victoria Medal of Honour recipients)
of Milford Haven, Patricia, Lady Brabourne, and Prince George of Greece and Denmark. As a keen gardener, Bowes-Lyon was awarded the Victoria Medal of...
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Edmund Leopold de Rothschild (category Victoria Medal of Honour recipients)
English financier, a member of the prominent Rothschild banking family of England, and a recipient of the Victoria Medal of Honour (VMH), given by the Royal...
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Sweet pea (redirect from Culture of sweet pea)
had introduced a total of 115 of the 264 cultivars grown at the time. Eckford was presented with the RHS Victoria Medal of Honour for his work. He died...
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Peter Barr (nurseryman) (category Victoria Medal of Honour recipients)
when citing a botanical name. He was born in Govan, Lanarkshire, the son of James Barr, a mill owner, and his wife, Mary Findlay. From a seed shop in...
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David C. H. Austin (category Victoria Medal of Honour recipients)
was awarded the Victoria Medal of Honour by the Royal Horticultural Society for his services to horticulture and the Dean Hole Medal from the Royal National...
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Gertrude Jekyll (category Victoria Medal of Honour recipients)
scenery Jekyll was awarded the Victoria Medal of Honour of the Royal Horticultural Society in 1897 and the Veitch Memorial Medal of the society in 1929. Also...
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introduced on 29 January 1856 by Queen Victoria to honour acts of valour during the Crimean War. Since then, the medal has been awarded 1,358 times to 1,355...
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Percy Thrower (category Victoria Medal of Honour recipients)
of Gardening. In 1974, the Royal Horticultural Society awarded him their highest honour, the Victoria Medal of Honour and was appointed a Member of the...
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Beth Chatto (category Victoria Medal of Honour recipients)
the Lawrence Memorial Medal 1987: Awarded the RHS Victoria Medal of Honour 1987: Awarded an honorary degree by the University of Essex 1995: Selected to...
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Fergus Garrett (category Victoria Medal of Honour recipients)
Memorial Medal for outstanding contribution to the practice of horticulture (2015) and the Victoria Medal of Honour (2019). He is a patron of the Beth...
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Christopher Lloyd (gardener) (category Victoria Medal of Honour recipients)
1979 Lloyd received the Victoria Medal of Honour, the highest award of the Royal Horticultural Society, for his promotion of gardening and his extensive...
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Geoffrey Jellicoe (category Victoria Medal of Honour recipients)
Italian Gardens of the Renaissance with John C. Shepherd. This pioneering study did much to re-awaken interest in this great period of landscape design...
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William Bertram Turrill (category Victoria Medal of Honour recipients)
mathematical classification of leaf shapes. Turrill received the Order of the British Empire in 1955 and the gold medal of the Linnean Society in 1958...
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Isaac Bayley Balfour (category Victoria Medal of Honour recipients)
Botany, University of Oxford 1888: Appointed Professor of Botany, University of Edinburgh 1897: Awarded Victoria Medal of Honour, Royal Horticultural...
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Laura McLaren, Baroness Aberconway (category Victoria Medal of Honour recipients)
Her birth was registered in the Salford district of Lancashire on 14 May 1854. She was the daughter of Henry Davis Pochin, a noted industrialist and chemist...
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Charles McLaren, 3rd Baron Aberconway (category Victoria Medal of Honour recipients)
New College, Oxford, and became a barrister of the Middle Temple. As a young man, he became a director of John Brown & Company, where his father was chairman...
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Eleanor Anne Ormerod (category Victoria Medal of Honour recipients)
Handbook of Insects injurious to Orchard and Bush Fruits. Almost the last honour which fell to her was the honorary degree of LLD of the University of Edinburgh...
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Graham Stuart Thomas (category Victoria Medal of Honour recipients)
Memorial Medal in 1966 and Victoria Medal of Honour in 1968. He received a Gold Medal from the RHS for his paintings and drawings, the Dean Hole Medal from...
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Thompson and Morgan (category Agriculture companies of the United Kingdom)
and he was honoured by the Royal Horticultural Society with the Victoria Medal of Honour in 1897. With the seed-raising firm expanding, William Thompson...
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Alan Titchmarsh (category Victoria Medal of Honour recipients)
Society's Victoria Medal of Honour, the highest award the RHS can bestow. In 2007, he was awarded an honorary degree by the University of Winchester...
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George Henslow (category Victoria Medal of Honour recipients)
medallists of the Victoria Medal of Honour awarded by the Royal Horticultural Society. George took orders and became Honorary Professor of the Royal Horticultural...
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Penelope Hobhouse (category Victoria Medal of Honour recipients)
Victoria Medal of Honour, the highest award given by the RHS to British Horticulturists in December 1996. Life Time Achievement Award from the Guild of Garden...
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