Jill, Duchess of Hamilton (1940–2018)
Autor de The Gardens of William Morris
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Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Duchess of Hamilton, Jill,
- Otros nombres
- Robertson, Jillian (birth name)
Hamilton, Jill
Duchess of Hamilton and Brandon, Jill Douglas-Hamilton, - Fecha de nacimiento
- 1940-01-30
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2018-04-22
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- UK
Australia (birth) - Lugar de nacimiento
- Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Oxford, England, UK
- Lugares de residencia
- Jerusalem
Townsville, Queensland, Australia
Chelsea, London, England, UK
Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland, UK
France
Monte Carlo, Monaco - Educación
- School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
- Ocupaciones
- reporter
conservationist
duchess - Relaciones
- Duke of Hamilton, Angus Alan Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, (former spouse)
- Biografía breve
- Jill, Duchess of Hamilton, (1940-2018) was born Jillian Robertson in Sydney, Australia, and trained as a newspaper journalist. She was sent to London as a correspondent for the Murdoch press, and other assignments took her to the USA, India, Russia, Tahiti, Vietnam, and Afghanistan. She interviewed prominent figures such as were Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, the Dalai Lama, Marlon Brando, Richard Burton, Nancy Mitford and P.G. Wodehouse.
Jill's first marriage was to Edward A.S. Hulton. In 1988, she married Angus Alan Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 15th Duke of Hamilton and 12th Duke of Brandon, premier peer of Scotland. The couple divorced in 1995.
Jill wrote numerous books, including The Captain Cook Myth (1980); Scottish Plants for Scottish Gardens (1996); English Plants for English Gardens (2000); The Early Discovery of Australian Garden Plants (1998); The Gardens of William Morris (1998); Napoleon, the Empress and the Artist (1999); Redouté’s Flowers (2001); and God, Guns and Israel (2004).
In 2004, Jill enrolled at the School of Oriental and African Studies at London University and earned a master's degree in Near and Middle Eastern Studies. She went on to work on a PhD. Late in life, Jill spent several months each year in Jerusalem and was a frequent contributor to The Catholic Herald.
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The book is titled "the Flower Chain" and is written as if all the small contributions added together to initially establish a chain of linkages with Europe and eventually a whole interlinked network. Some characters of particular significance are Joseph Banks. Despite his reputation as a bit of a dilettante he really seems to have been a major force behind much of the systemic collection and knowledge about Australian (and other ) plants. I was also impressed with Bank's role in having Ferdinand Bauer (artist) and Robert Brown (botanist and discoverer of Brownian motion) as part of the complement of people travelling with Flinders on the Investigator. Both pretty impressive people and great contributors. Ferdinand Bauer was amazing. He took countless sketches and noted the colouration against his set of 999 "standard colours" so he could later paint the subject accurately. And he did it with astonishing accuracy....even where colours merge fro one into another. (See the publication "Painting by Numbers").
Lots of interesting illustrations and lots of interesting history. (I didn't know that William Dampier was one of the first significant collectors of plants from North Western Australia. Also the sheer difficulty of keeping plants alive when they were subject to salt spray and scorching heat etc on the long voyages back to Europe). Some interesting stuff about the important role the Empress Josephine played with her garden at Malmaison in introducing and reproducing plants in Europe. She also employed the illustrator Redoute ...I saw his famous rose paintings in Japan. He was a very good painter....and obviously prolific.
In some ways, it's a bit disjointed as a narrative. But that kind of comes with the reality of the growth in knowledge about Australian Flora. (Generally ignored by governors in the colony who were most concerned with survival and didn't really see the native plants as offering anything of value).
Four stars from me.… (más)