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In Shanghai he did valuable work as a member of the 
Municipal Council, especially in supervising the laying-out 
and planting of the public gardens and the Bund. He also 
did great service during the critical period of the Taiping 
rebellion, and it was said of him that “more than any 
Englishman of his time he gained the confidence and 
affection of the Chinese business community.” He had in 
every respect a most successful career, and prospered greatly 
in business. His residence in China enabled him to be of 
immense service to botany, and also to pharmacognosy. 
Being an enthusiastic botanist and very warmly interested 
in the work of his brother, Daniel Hanbury, he was able to 
supply him with authentic material for his researches into 
the botanical sources and natural history of substances used 
in medicine. During a holiday in Europe in 1867 he visited 
Mentone with his brother Daniel, and, chancing to visit the 
promontory of Mortola on the Italian side of the frontier, he 
was charmed with the horticultural possibilities and natural 
beauty of the Palazzo Orengo, which stood in ruins among 
olive groves and vine terraces. He at once purchased the 
house and grounds, intending, in conjunction with his 
brother, to lay out a botanic garden for the experimental 
cultivation of medicinal plants. Owing to Daniel’s absorp- 
tion in other work up to his early death in 1875 this original 
scheme was never realised, but the gardens of La Mortola, 
under the care of Sir Thomas Hanbury, became one of the 
wonders of the world. 
In 1868 he married Katharine Adam Pease, daughter of 
Thomas Pease, of Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol. After two 
years in Shanghai, where their eldest son was born, they 
returned finally to Europe, making the Palazzo Orengo their 
winter home, and ultimately their usual domicile. The 
garden soon became famous for the luxuriance of its tropical 
plants and rarities. A catalogue, published in 1889, contains. 
about 3600 species, and that number has been added to by 
the introduction of further species of scientific or economic 
value. Sir Thomas Hanbury greatly enriched the botanical 
collections at Kew by presenting interesting growing plants 
and seeds. He also sent many specimens to the Museum, 
and valuable gifts of books and paintings to the Library. 
He also presented to the Museum of the Pharmaceutical 
