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Society, of which he was an honorary member, the unique 
collection of “ materia medica” gathered by his brother 
Daniel, and to the Society’s Library a valuable set of books 
relating to them. He was an active member of the Royal 
Horticultural Society of England, and in 1903 purchased 
the famous garden, 60 acres in extent, of Mr. G. F. Wilson, 
at Wisley in Surrey, and presented it to the Society. In the 
land of his adoption he was greatly beloved and esteemed 
because of his many benefactions. He founded and main- 
tained schools for boys and girls, built a Botanical Institute 
and presented it to the University at Genoa, a library for 
the ancient Approsian Library at Ventimiglia, a hall and 
library for English winter visitors at Alassio, a drinking- 
fountain in the town of Mentone in memory of the Queen 
Victoria Diamond Jubilee in 1897, and provided funds to 
establish a public garden at Ventimiglia. In recognition of 
his generous services to Italian education, he was made first 
a Cavalier, then a Commendatore of the Order of the Crown 
of Italy, Commendatore of the Order of SS. Maurizio and 
Lazzaro, and ultimately he was awarded a gold medal as a 
benefactor of public instruction. In 1901 King Edward 
created him a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian 
Order. Among the many distinguished personages who 
visited the Palazzo Orengo and its famous garden were 
Queen Victoria in 1882, the King (then Prince of Wales), 
along with the Grand Duke Michael of Russia, in 1898, and 
in the same year her Majesty the Empress Frederick. The 
Poet Laureate, Sir Alfred Austin, referring to a visit he paid, 
speaks of the helpful kindliness of Sir Thomas Hanbury and 
the refined, unostentatious hospitality in which Lady Hanbury 
assisted him with such quiet and simple graciousness. This 
was the testimony of all the many visitors to La Mortola. 
The garden was thrown open two days every week, and often 
as many as 400 and 500 people would visit it in an after- 
noon. Visitors were charged an entrance fee, which went to 
support the hospital at Ventimiglia. Pneumonia, following 
an attack of influenza, cut him off on 9th March 1907, at 
the age of 74. He became a Corresponding Member of 
the Botanical Society in 1902, and was also a Fellow of the 
Linnean Society. He was a generous friend of the poor, and 
striking testimony to the general esteem in which he was 
