Early Superintendents
of the Royal Botanic Gardens
David Lockhart (1818 -
1846)
William Purdie (1846 -
1857)
Herman Crueger (1857 -
1864)
Henry Prestoe (1864 -
1886)
John Hart (1887 - 1908)
Walter
Broadway (1888 - 1922) - Assistant Superintendent
Lockhart and Purdie had
experience in collecting plants in Venezuela,
St. Vincent and the Amazon.
Broadway was originally
Hart's assistant.
