Donald Beaton (1802–63)

Scottish gardener. An expert on bedding schemes and hybridisation. Trained in the gardens at Beaufort Castle, Inverness-shire. Gardener to William Gordon-Cumming at his estate in Altyre, at the Dickson & Turnbull nursery in Perth, and at the Caledonian Horticultural Society in Edinburgh. Head gardener and estate manager to William Gordon of Haffield House, Herefordshire, 1829–37; gardener to Thomas Harris of Kingsbury, Kilburn, London, then head gardener to William Fowle Middleton of Shrubland Park, Suffolk, from 1840. A regular contributor to the Gardener’s Magazine and the Cottage Gardener.