William John Bates van de Weyer was a British Militia officer who won lasting fame in horticulture as the first to hybridize a South American species of Buddleja with an Asiatic species while on leave during World War I.
Buddleja × weyeriana 'Golden Glow'
Sylvain Van de Weyer
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Jean-Sylvain Van de Weyer was a Belgian politician who served as the Belgian Minister at the Court of St. James's, effectively the ambassador to the United Kingdom, and briefly, as the prime minister of Belgium, all under King Leopold I.
Princess Louise (1848–1939) and Sylvain's daughter Louise (died 1896), by James Valentine (1815–1879), circa 1866–1870.
Image: Carte de visite of Sylvain Van de Weyer (1802 1874)
Image: Elizabeth Anne Sturgis Bates, Madame Van de Weyer (d.1878)