“A delightful companion, unassuming, sincere and a most lovable man…” quoted from a short and touching obituary (and portrait) was also published in The Garden (October 16, 1915, p.514) by his friend and fellow soldier , the editor Herbert Cowley (who had been invalided out of the army).
Herbert Cowley (born 1885 – died November 1967, Newton Abbott, Devon) was a botanist, gardener, garden photographer and garden writer who edited The Garden journal from 1915 to the mid 1920s and wrote many gardening books until retiring in 1936.
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His Kew Guild Journal obituary in 1968 mentions prewar plant hunting trips to the Dolomites and a notable visit to Bulgaria as a guest of King Ferdinand in the company of Kew contemporary C.F. Ball of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin in Dublin.
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Herbert Cowley became Assistant Editor or Sub-Editor at a different title, The Garden in 1910.
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Sadly this prewar lecture lists contain the names of some of other Kew staff including C.F. Ball who would soon be killed on active service.
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He appears also to have written garden articles for Country Life after 1911.
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