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	John Tradescant
		John Tradescant the elder (ca 1570s - 15/16 April, 1638) was an English naturalist, gardener, collector and traveller, probably born in Suffolk, England.
		John Tradescant travelled to Arctic Russia in 1618, to the Levant and to Algiers, collecting seeds and bulbs everywhere and assembling a collection of curiosities of natural history and ethnography that became the first museum open to the public, the Musaeum Tradescantianum, in Lambeth, London.
		Tradescant bequeathed his library and museum to Elias Ashmole (1617--92), whose name it bears as the core of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.
	www.teachtime.com /en/wikipedia/j/jo/john_tradescant.html (376 words)

	Museum of Garden History History
		The John Tradescants are buried in the church yard of St Mary-at-Lambeth which is now the Museum of Garden History, along with the other family members.
		By the 1620's Tradescant had achieved a prominent position as a director of gardens whose advice was sought by the highest in the land.
		Tradescant willed that the collection was to go to his widow on his death, but Elias Ashmole obtained the collection by deed of gift and established the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford with the collection.
	www.cix.co.uk /~museumgh/tradescants.htm (582 words)

	:: the john tradescants :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The title of this web site is a reference (and a tribute) to the lives of the John Tradescants (Elder and Younger), who lived in England in the 16th and 17th centuries.
		John Tradescant are the following things: first in the courtyard there lie two ribs of a whale, also a very ingenious little boat of bark; then in the garden all kinds of foreign plants, which are to be found in a special little book which Mr.
		John the elder was also employed on a number of diplomatic or military missions.
	musaeum.org /tradescants/tradescant.html (780 words)

	Tradescants
		Tradescant's early career was spent as gardener to the Cecil family, for whom he laid out the gardens at Hatfield House in Hertfordshire.
		'Tradescant's Ark' was recognised as a unique educational asset of the capital: "of all places in England (it is) best for the improvement of children in their education, because of the variety of objects which daily present themselves to them, or may easily be seen (at) Mr John Tradescant's", wrote a contemporary schoolmaster.
		In his declining years, John Tradescant the younger decided to present his collection to the University of Oxford; but he wanted his second wife, Hester Pooks to enjoy its possession and the income from it during the remainder of her lifetime.
	www.vauxhallsociety.org.uk /Tradescants.html (1506 words)

	Philippa Gregory: Historical Backgrounds - Virgin Earth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		John Tradescant missed much of the war, and I imagine that this was a deliberate choice on his part.
		John Tradescant III - or Johnnie, as I call him in the novel was a real character and did die early, but we do not know the cause of his death, nor do we know anything about his politics.
		He and John Tradescant went out one evening and when Tradescant was the worse for wear from drink he signed the museum and the plant collection over to Elias Ashmole on the understanding that Ashmole would transfer them on to either Oxford or Cambridge university.
	www.philippagregory.com /BgVirginEarth.shtml (1595 words)

	Science Show - 9 July 2005 - Profile of the John Tradescants
		John Tradescant the elder was the first person to import tulips and other exotic plants.
		John Snr made his name in the final years of Queen Elizabeth's reign and was then hired in 1609 by Robert Cecil, First Lord of Salisbury to beautify the gardens of his grand new home Hatfield House in Hertfordshire.
		John travelled to Holland to purchase the newly fashionable flower, the tulip and spent no less than 80 shillings of Cecil's money, the equivalent of about 440 pounds today, on sacks of tulip bulbs.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/scienceshow/stories/2005/1403057.htm (525 words)

	Museum of Garden History Portraits
		John Tradescant the Elder (c.1577 - 1638) became, in 1609, gardener to Robert Cecil, the first Lord Salisbury, at Hatfield House in Hertfordshire.
		After the death of John Tradescant the Younger, and with the Tradescant collection at its heart, Ashmole founded the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.
		She is pictured with her stepson John Tradescant the Third who died at 19.
	www.cix.co.uk /~museumgh/portraits.htm (322 words)

	Telegraph \| Entertainment \| Risking their lives for plants
		To the royal apothecary John Parkinson, John Tradescant the Elder was 'that worthy, curious and diligent searcher and preseruer of all natures rarities and varieties'.
		Tradescant was part of a small, tight world of proto-botanists and experimental gardeners curious about the plant riches being discovered at the margins of Europe, in North Africa, the Ottoman empire and the new colonies in America and the Indies.
		John Tradescant 'trailed after his father's brighter star, like the tail of a comet', struggling to emerge from the shadow of a father whose last appointments were to the King as the gardener and keeper of the royal silkworms at Oatlands Palace and finally, briefly, at the first British botanical gardens at Oxford.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2006/10/22/bopot214.xml (759 words)

	Chesapeake Bay Journal: English museums' early roots included Chesapeake flora - November 2006
		John Tradescant 1 Bill of Â£25.â The investment help to pay the passage for indentured servants who would work for a specified number of years, then be given land and supplies after their service contract had been fulfilled.
		Tradescant eventually assembled the natural and cultural objects into what was known as a âcabinet of curiosities,â exhibit for others to admire, which he opened to the public soon after settling in Lambeth in 1629.
		Tradescant also was fortunate, at age 30, to be appointed to the position in royal service previously held by his father at the same Â£100 a year.
	www.bayjournal.com /article.cfm?article=2942 (2204 words)

	John Tradescant the elder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Tradescant the elder (ca 1570s – 15/16 April, 1638), father of John Tradescant the younger, was an English naturalist, gardener, collector and traveller, probably born in Suffolk, England, he had a big connection with The King's School Canterbury.
		The Ark was the prototypical "Cabinet of Curiosity" [1], a collection of rare and strange objects, that became the first museum open to the public in England, the Musaeum Tradescantianum.
		Tradescant Road, off South Lambeth Road in Vauxhall, marks the former boundary of the Tradescant estate.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Tradescant_the_elder (318 words)

	Chesapeake Bay Journal: Chesapeake treasures pop up in English gardens, museum - December 2006
		Tradescant had spent the early 1650s creating an index to his collections called âMusaeum Tradescantianum or A Collection of Rarities Preserved at South-Lambeth neer London By John Tradescant.â It was the English-speaking worldâs first museum catalog.
		Tradescant clearly wanted posterity to understand that this was not a random collection of oddities, but rather a resource which persons then and in the future should understand.
		Kent Mountford is an environmental historian and estuarine ecologist.
	www.bayjournal.com /article.cfm?article=2963 (1931 words)

	Hester Tradescant found dead in garden pool - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Hester Pooks Tradescant, widow of John Tradescant the Younger, was found dead this morning, apparently drowned in a garden pool at her home in Vauxhall in South Lambeth.
		John Tradescant the Elder frequently funded expeditions to various countries with the stipulation that unique plants and artifacts be returned to him.
		John began a long running court battle against Ashmole; the lawsuits fell to Hester after his death in 1662.
	www.killerplants.com /whats-in-a-name/20030404.asp (594 words)

	The Galileo Project
		Tradescant was steadfastly orthodox in his religious connections.
		The two John Tradescants, father and son, were skilled gardeners with minimal claims to be considered scientists.
		Buckingham arranged for Tradescant to hold the sinecure of yeoman garnetter at the Whitehalff granary (which I categorize as patronage).
	galileo.rice.edu /Catalog/NewFiles/tradscnt_jo1.html (674 words)

	John Tradescant
		Two John Tradescants, father and son, were among the earliest English botanists and plantsmen, travellers and collectors.
		His son, John Tradescant the Younger (1608 - 1662), botanist and gardener, born in Meopham, Kent, made three trips to Virginia between 1637 and 1662 to collect plants.
		Tradescant bequeathed his library and museum to Elias Ashmole (1617 - 1692), whose name it bears as the core of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford where the Tradescant collections remain largely intact.
	www.mcfly.org /John_Tradescant (424 words)

	The Galileo Project
		Like his father, Tradescant was a skilled gardener, and his claim to be a scientist is minimal.
		Tradescant dedicated the first edition to Musaeum to the President and Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians.
		Tradescant was growing medicinal plants for the college at this time and was negotiating with them over the establishment of a physic garden.
	galileo.rice.edu /Catalog/NewFiles/tradscnt_jo2.html (481 words)

	Sample text for Library of Congress control number 2005045090
		John had a private ambition to change the garden after the new fashion -- to break up the regular square and rectangular beds and make all the separate beds one long whole, like an embroidered hem or scarf -- a twisting pattern that went on and on, serpentined in and about itself.
		Tradescant had a picture in his mind's eye of plants spilling over the hedges, of the thick green of the box containing wildness, fertility, even color.
		John was recalled to his real duty -- to be his master's man heart and soul, to love what he loved, to think what he thought, to follow him to death without question if need be.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/enhancements/fy0640/2005045090-s.html (2314 words)

	The Ark Catalogue Number 32
		‘John Tradescant the elder; who first instituted and enriched the collection of select things and celebrated artifacts in the Lambeth Storehouse near London where they can still be seen.’Catalogue no.32, frontispiece.
		After his death in 1638, his collection passed to his son, who was also called John and was also a well-travelled gardener, who augmented it and prepared the catalogue.
		Tradescant’s Ark in Lambeth was open to callers on payment of a fee and became a place of resort for visitors to London.
	www.mhs.ox.ac.uk /gatt/ark/catalog.asp?CN=32 (342 words)

	Amazon.ca: Earthly Joys: Books: Philippa Gregory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Tradescant is in his 30s when he goes to work for King James's trusted adviser Robert Cecil, then observes the degradation as power passes from the honorable Cecil to the seductive, sexually cynical Duke of Buckingham.
		Tradescant's wife and son are suspicious of the pro-Catholic views of the court.
		John Tradescant, gardener to Lord Cecil, depends on a well-ordered universe in which he serves a master, who serves the crown, who serves God.
	www.amazon.ca /Earthly-Joys-Philippa-Gregory/dp/0312192622 (830 words)

	Who was John Tradescant? - What's in a Name? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		John Tradescant was born around 1570 into the yeomanry.
		Tradescant became a gardener and was considered "the greatest gardener" of his day.
		In 1616, Tradescant received a shipment of plants and seeds among which was one that produced sky-blue flowers.
	www.killerplants.com /whats-in-a-name/20021213.asp (652 words)

	South Pacific Taxidermy
		Known as John Tradescants Ark of Lambeth, it had culminated from the families interest shared by both John Tradescant the Elder (1570-1638) and his son of the same name, in collecting items of curiosities, both cultural and natural history.
		The Elder John Tradescant first travelled in 1609 to Europe whilst under the employ of Robert Cecil (who was later to become the first Earl of Salisbury), and brought back varieties of flowers and fruits for the gardens at Hatfield.
		In 1656 a catalogue of the Tradescants collection was sent to print including with it a record of the contents of both the Ark and its adjacent gardens.
	www.southpacifictaxidermy.com /html/history.htm (1415 words)

	Amazon.com: Earthly Joys: Books: Philippa Gregory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		But John is helpless to deny the Duke, even to the point of death, desperately in love with the charismatic dandy who is squandering the kingdom at the side of Charles I. Throughout the novel, nature's diversity is contrasted with the turmoil wrought by selfish kings and their sycophants.
		Tradescant is as deeply flawed as the era he lives in, a good man caught up in a dark vortex of conflicted emotions, struggling to balance his duties as a husband and father with the yearning to travel the world, to follow the Duke wherever he leads.
		John serves as a metaphor for the changes sweeping the country, devoted to the old ways, yet tempted by the new, his heart tormented by helpless devotion to the Duke, his marriage flawed but still dear.
	www.amazon.com /Earthly-Joys-Philippa-Gregory/dp/0312192622 (2095 words)

	Vauxhall: The Tradescants and the Ashmoles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		John Tradescant (senior) and his son John Tradescant (junior) lived in a house and 3 acres beside the South Lambeth Road - and Elias Ashmole (founder of Oxford's Ashmolean museum) later moved in next door.
		The Tradescants are best known as gardeners - the father was gardener to Charles I - and they were the first people to grow exotic fruits such as pineapples and nectarines in England.
		Tradescant immediately regretted the gift and tore up the deed but Ashmole took him to court and the gift was declared valid - but to take effect only after the death of both Tradescant and his wife.
	www.vauxhallandkennington.org.uk /ashmole.shtml (531 words)

	The John Tradescants \| MetaFilter
		March 14, 2005 6:30 AM "A Collection of Rarities" The John Tradescants (Elder and Younger) lived in London in the 16th and 17th centuries.
		The Tradescant's collection was eventually transferred to -- and some say it was swindled out of them by -- Elias Ashmole, who used it to start The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.
		The Tradescant collection may have been the earliest major English cabinet of curiosities, but there were other famous collections in Europe that preceded it, for example Emperor Rudolf II's kunst/wunderkammer was well-established at Prague by the end of the 16th Century.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/40405 (273 words)

	Tradescant, John (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		He was appointed gardener to Charles I and was succeeded by his son, John Tradescant the Younger (1608-1662).
		Tradescant senior is generally considered the earliest collector of plants and other natural-history objects.
		In 1604 the elder Tradescant became gardener to the earl of Salisbury, who in 1610 for the first time sent him abroad to collect plants.
	www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/biographies/MainBiographies/T/Tradescant/1.html (194 words)

	Rocky Road: Tradescant and Ashmole
		Yet the senior Tradescant didn't limit his collections to viewing by the elite; for a small fee he allowed members of the public to see it, too.
		The junior Tradescant must have had misgivings because he tried to have the deed overturned before he died, yet Ashmole prevailed.
		Her demise came early, and it wouldn't be a stretch to call the circumstances fishy: She was eventually found drowned in a shallow pond on her own property, but her death was considered an accident.
	www.strangescience.net /tradash.htm (369 words)

	Blish Product: Earthly Joys: A Novel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Tradescant's talents soon come to the attention of the most powerful man in the country, the irresistible Duke of Buckingham, the lover of King Charles I. Tradescant has always been faithful to his masters, but Buckingham is unlike any he has ever known: flamboyant, outrageously charming, and utterly reckless.
		Every certainty upon which Tradescant has based his life -- his love of his wife and children, his passion for his work, his loyalty to his country -- is shattered as he follows Buckingham to court, to war, and to the forbidden territories of human love.
		From the details of garden design and innovation to the politics of a growing revolution which was to kill a king and turn a world upside down, Philippa Gregory once again makes history come alive through the people whose passions shaped that world.
	www.blish.com /Product/ProductInfo.aspx?ProductID=65064 (197 words)

	Earthly Joys -- book review
		Tradescant is as deeply flawed as the era he lives in, caught up in a dark vortex of conflicted emotions; John knows both indescribable joy and the depths of despair.
		Tradescant’s figure serves as a metaphor for the changes sweeping a country devoted to the old ways yet tempted by the new, his heart tormented by helpless devotion to the Duke.
		Tradescant travels the globe gathering nature's variety to plant in English soil, but his soul is adrift in a rose-filled garden, the sharp thorns of loss hidden beneath the fragrant petals.
	www.curledup.com /earthlyj.htm (598 words)

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