George Nicholson | |
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| Born | 7 December 1847 |
| Died | 20 September 1908 (aged 60) |
| Nationality | English |
| Occupation | botanist |
| Known for | Victoria Medal of Honour |
George Nicholson (7 December 1847 Sharow - 20 September 1908), was an English botanist and horticulturist, amongst 60 awarded the Victoria Medal of Honour by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1897 for their contributions to horticulture. He is noted for having edited "The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening", produced as an eight-part alphabetical series between 1884 and 1888 with a supplement, and published by L. Upcott Gill of London. It was also published in New York in 1889 by The American Agriculturist in 4 Volumes.[1]
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[music] >> CRAIG: Craig Shields, I'm the Curriculum Leader for Sport. I teach on a range of courses, mostly level 3 from Sports Science to A Level to Foundation Degree. >> SEAN: My name's Sean Nicholson and I'm a lecturer on the Sports Courses. >> CRAIG: They've all got specialised timetables in the sports department that cater for the academic and practical side. So for example on a morning they have academic studies between 9 and 11, they'll have a break, have another academic class till 12 and then they'll train of an afternoon. >> SEAN: What we've got here is a really excellent range of facilities. We have a big double sports hall which we use for various teaching sessions and obviously the basketball, football 5 a side. All you can basically think off within that. We've got I think its at least four full size outdoor pitches which are really well maintained and really well looked after. JAMAL: My name's Jamal George and I'm on a BND Exercise and Fitness. In our lessons we do stuff like Psychology, stuff about Nutrition and how athletes perform. When I finish this course I want to go to University and hopefully study something in sports, maybe Sports Psychology. >> CRAIG: Day to day they always do a mixture of both their academic studies and the practical sport that they choose, whether it be football, boxing, or rugby, any of our academies here. >>LEWIS: My name is Lewis Hatcher, and the course I'm on is BND Sport Coaching and Fitness. Things we do are coaching, learning different skills, techniques and the various different sports. >> CRAIG: We're very lucky to have some fantastic lecturers so the level of teaching is very high. Last year our observation team, everyone was at good or better for our teaching observation, with some outstanding teaching there as well. >> LAUREN: My name is Lauren Watts and I'm doing BTEC Sport Science. On the Sports Science course we do practical, it's mostly work-based, but we do assignments and topics which we do in the course; Sports Psychology, skill acquisition, anatomy, practical team sports. >> SEAN: Once they've finished the course, if you're talking the level 3 students and the Sports Science and BTEC Nationals and things like that they can then go on to do the Foundation Degree we run here as well which is also two years and they can then progress to some other University to top up there to get a full degree. They can also if they want to leave at the end of level 3, they can just go on and do degrees somewhere else as well. Obviously there's other ways into employment so they can work in leisure centres and become coaches because obviously we run that type of programme. And other avenues of like Management within sport as well they can get into. >> CRAIG: Enrolling on a course at the college you've also got the added advantage of having full use of our brand new gym facility. We've got a fitness suite consisting of both weights, machines and also a cardio-vascular suite. All the equipment is brand new and state of the art. [music[ >> WAYNE: My name is Wayne Cottrell and I'm in charge of Outdoor Education. They take part in activities such as rock climbing, kayaking, mountain biking, they'll also be doing fitness as it's part of the Sports Course, sports injuries, also we take them on camps as well. The opportunitites are quite varied; they can either go into the forces, because a lot of the Outdoor Education courses are linked with public services, but also they qualify to go and work out in the industry in outdoor centres or for sports programmes or even private companies such as Key Adventure or something. I'm a qualified Kayak instructor, Mountain Leader, rock climbing instructor. Also we do other things such as beach lifeguarding, we do a lot of water activities. We do some other enrichment programmes like scuba diving, orienteering. The facilities here are excellent. We've got a top of the range gym, top of the range sports facilitites, we've also got a site at Houghall College, and that provides us with a base for orienteering. Plus it's got a full forest to do any camping skills that we need to do and a Mountain Bike track. At the moment the split of females to male is about 60 - 40. We have a good selection of females of various ages all who really enjoy outdoor education. But they've also got links to cadets, and they all want to go into forces or actually get involved with industry. [music]
Life
As recorded in various census returns, George was the son of nurseryman James Nicholson. George worked at the nursery of Fisher & Holmes in Sheffield, travelled to France and found employment at La Muette nursery in Paris, becoming fluent in both French and German. He married Elizabeth Naylor Bell at Thirsk in 1875, and she died in 1879 at the age of 28, having produced a son.
He started work at Kew in 1873, succeeding the late John Smith as Curator of the Gardens in 1886 and staying on until 1901, when ill-health forced his retirement. Even so, he undertook the occasional botanical project when his health permitted. He was living at Old Deer Park Villas, Richmond in 1881, doing clerical work for H.M Office of Works. 1891 found him living as a widower at the Royal Gardens, Kew, together with his son, James Bell Nicholson, and his sister who acted as housekeeper. Ten years later, in 1901, census returns record his still living there with his sister.
He contributed to the Journal of Botany of 1875 with an article titled “The wild flora of Kew Gardens and Pleasure grounds”. Earlier volumes of The Garden contain many of his articles on cultivated trees and shrubs. His most important work, though, was the “Illustrated Dictionary“, which soon was regarded as the standard reference work, a French edition also being published at the time. The Royal Horticultural Society's present Dictionary of Gardening published by Oxford, has Nicholson's Illustrated Dictionary as its basis, and has retained its predecessor's layout.[2]
Nicholson was an authority on oaks and maples, and was appointed as judge in the horticulture section of the Chicago Exposition of 1893. He also inspected the Arnold Arboretum and a few other outstanding gardens in the United States, reporting back in a paper entitled "Horticulture and Arboriculture in the United States" published in the Kew Bulletin of February 1894.[3]
He was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1898, and in 1894 he was awarded The Veitch Memorial Medal in recognition of his services to gardening and the Victoria Medal of Honour in 1897.[3] His collection of British plants was left to Professor Trail which, together with Trail’s specimens laid the foundation of the British collection at Aberdeen. George Nicholson is denoted by the author abbreviation G.Nicholson when citing a botanical name.[4]
Nicholson was also instrumental in the planning stages of the Cruickshank Botanic Garden.[5]
Notes
- ^ George Nicholson (Editor) The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening: A Practical and Scientific Encyclopedia of Horticulture for Gardeners and Botanists, Volume 4 (1889) at Google Books
- ^ The Royal Horticultural Society Dictionary of Gardening
- ^ a b Boulger 1912.
- ^ Brummitt, R. K.; Powell, C. E. (1992). Authors of Plant Names. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. ISBN 1-84246-085-4.
- ^ "George Nicholson - Wiki".
References
- Boulger, George Simonds (1912). . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- G. S. Boulger, rev. Ray Desmond. "Nicholson, George (1847–1908)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/35228. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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