The Royal Belfast Academical Institution, known locally as Inst, is an independent grammar school in Belfast, Northern Ireland. With the support of Belfast's leading reformers and democrats, it opened
View of the institute, circa 1910
John Templeton (botanist)
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John Templeton was a pioneering Irish naturalist, sometimes referred to as the "Father of Irish Botany". He was a leading figure in Belfast's late eighteenth-century enlightenment, initially supported
Watercolour of Orobanche rubra by John Templeton
Cranmore House 1886
Partial reconstruction of the Cranmore garden
Plants in the tropical house in the Botanic Gardens, Belfast