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John Claudius Loudon (8 April 1783 – 14 December 1843) was a Scottish botanist, garden designer and author. He was the first to use the term arboretum in writing to refer to a garden of plants, especially trees, collected for the purpose of scientific study.
Apr 4, 2024 · John Claudius Loudon (born April 8, 1783, Cambuslang, Lanarkshire, Scot.—died Dec. 14, 1843, London) was a Scottish landscape gardener and architect. Loudon was the most influential horticultural journalist of his time, and his writings helped shape Victorian taste in gardens, public parks, and domestic architecture.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
John Claudius Loudon 1 The Victorian writer and designer John Claudius Loudon has been described as the ‘father of the English garden’1. Louise Wickham looks at his work and contribution to the British garden.
John Claudius Loudon (April 8, 1783–December 14, 1843) was a Scottish botanist, landscape architect, cemetery designer, and author, as well as the most influential horticultural journalist of his time.
Dec 2, 2018 · John Claudius Loudon was a garden and landscape designer, and horticultural writer. He was an early exponent of the gardenesque landscape gardening style, founded The Gardener's Magazine, and was the author of the Encyclopaedia of Gardening.
Born in 1783, by the age of 11 he was working as a garden boy, before being apprenticed to Dickson & Shade, a firm of Edinburgh nurserymen. In his spare time he also attended classes in botany and agriculture at Edinburgh University.
Loudon, John Claudius. Born - Died : 1783 - 1843. Loudon is the only polymath to have taken up the profession of landscape design in the British Isles. The son of a farmer, he studied at the University of Edinburgh and arrived in London at the age of 20 with letters of introduction.
