History

Henry Wilson

Ernest Henry Chinese Wilson (February 15, 1876 – October 15, 1930), better known as E. H. Wilson, was a notable plant collector who introduced a large variety of Asian plant species to the west. Wilson was born in Chipping Campden, England, first employed at a local nursery as apprentice gardener, and subsequently at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens where he also studied at Birmingham Technical School in the evenings, receiving the Queens Prize for botany. In 1897 he began work at the Royal Bot...