Early life London Country Residences Ferm ornee Russia Loss of fortune Hothouses France and Italy Gardeners Magazine Marriage Birmingham Scotland Arboretum Suburban Gardener Cemeteries Last illness Death Anecdotes Elegy By John Robertson, then working at Chatsworth Hark! hark! the sound - 'tis a funeral knell 'Tis not the man of wealth and state No! no! we grieve, in the friend now gone, He wielded no sword in his country's cause, That voice is hush'd I - and lost the sound He wakes no more ! -for the sleep of death His pen is still! - and his spirit fled
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