tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025651162254792506.post8144621566873620453..comments2024-03-24T18:05:27.769+11:00Comments on Ian Fraser, talking naturally: On This Day, 10 January; death of Aylmer Bourke LambertIan Fraserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01023900823785041354noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025651162254792506.post-15679428711471049652014-01-11T19:25:22.545+11:002014-01-11T19:25:22.545+11:00I think your response says my first option is the ...I think your response says my first option is the go. <br /><br />My initial interpretation of "Kew" was that it was the same as the "Royal Botanic Gardens". However wikipedia mentions that the population of the surrounding district is currently a tad over 11,000. So it is likely that there were lots of people living "at Kew" in Lambert's time and demography is inexorable.<br /><br />Martin<br />Flabmeisterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00934077052437339591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025651162254792506.post-31953433161166990572014-01-11T14:23:23.635+11:002014-01-11T14:23:23.635+11:00Fair go Martin - he died at 81, at a time when mea...Fair go Martin - he died at 81, at a time when mean age at death in England was 30! Curiously, I read that, towards the end of his life finding that "Boyton [the family home in Wiltshire] did not suit his health, Lambert took a house at Kew Green". One might conclude that Kew Green didn't suit his health either, but as I say, he'd gone way past what he might reasonably have expected. Ian Fraserhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01023900823785041354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025651162254792506.post-72518299760097177362014-01-10T19:10:39.337+11:002014-01-10T19:10:39.337+11:00I am struck by the comment "He died at Kew.&q...I am struck by the comment "He died at Kew." More information please.<br /><br />Did he have accommodation there and thus passed on where he spent more time? <br />Was it as a result of exertion in shifting specimens? <br />Or, my pick, apoplexy due to some taxonomist renaming his favourite genus?<br /><br />Martin<br /><br />MartinFlabmeisterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00934077052437339591noreply@blogger.com