LONDON] 
BRITISH ORNITHOLOGY 
357 
1881. The Fauna of Cleveland. [In Brit. Assoc. Handbook to Middles - 
brough and the District .] Middlesbrough : 1881. 
Collation — 1 vol. post 8vo, pp. vi + pp. 93, map and 3 pi. 
1887. The River Tees : its Marshes and their Fauna. ( Naturalist , pp. 
1-16.) Idem. Supplement (in a later volume). 
London (George), ob. 1717 , and Wise (Henry), 1653-1738 1 
Nothing seems to be known of the birth and parentage 
of the first-named horticulturist. The Diet, of National 
Biography passes him over, but gives a notice of his partner 
Wise. In 1681 , while gardener to Bishop Compton, London 
entered into the speculation of Brompton Park Nursery, 
“ the greatest work of the kind ever seen, or heard of, either 
in books or travels,” his partners at first being Cook, Lucre, 
and Field, while Henry Wise came in in 1694 , when the first- 
named had retired and the two last had died. After the 
Bevolution, London was made Superintendent of all the 
Boyal Gardens and a Page of the Back Stairs to Queen Mary. 
He appears, in conjunction with Wise, to have been director 
of nearly all the gardens and parks of note in the United 
Kingdom, and was accustomed to ride fifty or sixty miles daily 
in visiting them. His activity and exertion on horseback 
is said to have brought on a fever which caused his death 
about Christmas 1717 , after a fortnight’s illness (Johnson’s 
Hist. English Gardening). As to whether it was he or Wise 
who was responsible for the ornithological matter in the 
undernoted work, which Johnson states they published in 
conjunction, we have no means of discovering, but they 
admit in their Preface that the information in the work is 
chiefly extracted from other books. 
Henry Wise, who was born in 1653 , was shortly after 
William HP’s accession appointed Superintendent of the 
Koyal Gardens, a post he held also under Queen Anne and 
George I. He died at Warwick, December 15 , 1738 . 
1717. [Anonymous.] Dictionarium | Rusticum, Urbanicum & Botani- 
cum : | or, a | Dictionary | of | Husbandry, Gardening, Trade, 
1 Halkett and Laing give the author as “Nathaniel Bailey?” — we think 
erroneously. 
