George Clifford III

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George Clifford III (7 January 1685, Amsterdam - 10 April 1760, Heemstede) was a wealty Dutch banker and one of the directors of the Dutch East India Company. He is known for his keen interest in plants and gardens. His estate Hartekamp had a rich variety of plants and he engaged the Swedish naturalist Carl von Linné, who stayed at his estate from 1736 to 1738, to write Hortus Cliffortianus, a masterpiece of early botanical literature published in 1738, and for which Georg Dionysius Ehret did the illustrations.

[edit] External links

• Biography from "The George Clifford Herbarium"

[edit] See also

• List of florilegia and botanical codices