George Fergusson Wilson

Text here about George Fergusson Wilson
- innovative and experimental chemist
- Prices Patent Candles
- retired a wealthy man at age 43
- saw the area that's now RHS Wisley for sale in (?) 1877 (?) - "if we can get this, I can create a garden such as has never been seen before" [find exact quote] and purchased it in 1878
- 9 different soil types in Oakwood
- development of his Experimental Garden
- plants in the Oakwood garden
- famous visitors
- death in 1903 and purchase of Oakwood and nearby areas by Lord Hanbury (qv) with prompting by Ellen Willmott (qv)