Autor: John Edmondson

John Williams (1801-1859), the son of a miller, was a native of the modern county borough of Conwy, North Wales. He had an early career as a gardener and subsequently practised medicine as a physician and surgeon. During his residence in Llanrwst, he wrote this account of the natural history and topography of the parish, which was published by a local printer in 1830. He studied medicine in Dublin, and, after emigrating with his family to Pennsylvania and subsequently working in the California goldfields, he returned to Denbighshire and became surgeon to the Minera Lead Works near Wrexham.John Edmondson recently retired after a career at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, and the National Museums Liverpool. He is currently an Honorary Research Associate at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, where he helps to edit the Flora of Iraq. He is the co-editor of Flora Europaea and the European Garden Flora, the author of James Bolton of Halifax, compiler of the Codex Botanicus Linnaeanus, and a contributor to Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands.