John Tradescant the Younger
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John Tradescant the Younger, son of John Tradescant the Elder, was a botanist and gardener. The standard author abbreviation Trad. is applied to species he described.
John Tradescant the Younger, attributed to Thomas de Critz
Tomb in the garden of the deconsecrated church of St Mary-at-Lambeth, next to the entrance of Lambeth Palace. London
Portrait by William Dobson, circa 1720
Ester, his second wife, by Thomas de Critz. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Elias Ashmole
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Elias Ashmole was an English antiquary, politician, officer of arms, astrologer, freemason and student of alchemy. Ashmole supported the royalist side during the English Civil War, serving in the arti
John Tradescant the Younger
…and the second edition to the recently restored Charles II. Tradescant bequeathed his library and museum to (or some say it was swindled from him by) Elias Ashmole (1617–1692), whose name it bears as the core of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford where the Tradescant collections remain largely intact. Tradescant died…
Ashmole c. 1688
Ashmole's birthplace in Lichfield
Ashmole by William Faithorne, 1656
Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum (1652), Ashmole's annotated compilation of alchemical poems in English