Philip Miller ( 1691 - 1771 )

Birth: Bromley, Deptford or Greenwich, Kent, England (1691) Death: Near Chelsea churchyard, London (18 December 1771) Burial: North side of Chelsea churchyard, London Profession: Author Gardener Research Field: Botany, horticulture Career: Assistant to his father; set up in business as a florist at St George's Fields; Foreman of Chelsea Physic Garden (1722-1770); corresponded with Carl Linnaeus (FRS 1753) and many other foreign botanists; visited Holland (1723, 1730); left a large herbarium which was purchased by Sir Joseph Banks and is now in the Natural History Museum Memberships: Botanical Academy of Florence Membership: Fellow Election Date: 22/01/1730.