Robert Marnock (1800–89)

Scottish landscape gardener. First recorded as gardener at Bretton Hall, Yorkshire; won a competition to design the Sheffield Botanic Garden and became its first curator, 1834–40; won a second competition to design the garden of the Royal Botanic Society in Regent’s Park, London, and became curator there, 1840–62; freelance gardener, working on many projects, including Greenlands, Henley-on-Thames; Brambletye, near East Grinstead; Weston Park, Sheffield; and Alexandra Park, Hastings, 1862–79.