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Personal data William John Bates van de WEYER 

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Household of William John Bates van de WEYER

He is married to Olive Elizabeth WINGFIELD.

They got married on December 17, 1908, he was 38 years old.


Notes about William John Bates van de WEYER

William John Bates van de Weyer (1870–1946) was a major in the British Army who won more lasting fame in horticulture as the first to hybridize a South American species of Buddleja with an Asiatic species while on leave during World War I.

Buddleja × weyeriana 'Golden Glow'
Working in the nursery of his home, Smedmore House, Corfe Castle, he crossed B. globosa with B. davidii, naming the new hybrid Buddleja weyeriana. The initial F1 progeny were aesthetically poor, but Weyer persevered, back-crossing them to produce more strongly coloured F2 plants from which he made two selections he named 'Moonlight' and 'Golden Glow', which remain in commerce to this day.[1] Over half a century later, 'Sungold' was raised from a sport of 'Golden Glow' in the Netherlands, and was used in hybridization experiments in the USA, leading to the release of small, sterile Buddlejas such as 'Blue Chip'.

Weyer also hybridized B. globosa with B. madagascariensis circa 1920 and, several years later, B. globosa with B. brasiliensis,[2] though neither appears to have had much horticultural merit and no cultivars are known.

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Career[edit]
Van de Weyer was the son of Lt. Col. Victor and Lady Emily van de Weyer,[3] of New Lodge, Berkshire, and a grandson of Sylvain Van de Weyer. Educated at Eton and Sandhurst, he was appointed aide de camp to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland before gaining the rank of Major in the service of the 3rd Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment. Van de Weyer held the office of High Sheriff of Dorset in 1942.[4] [5]

Personal life[edit]
Van de Weyer married the Hon. Olive Elizabeth Wingfield (1885–1978), eldest daughter of Mervyn Wingfield, 7th Viscount Powerscourt, on 17 December 1908. She bore him five children, three daughters, Myrtle (1910-1997), Daphne (1911-2000) and Jasmine (1914-?), and two sons, Sylvain (1917-?) and Adrian (1919-1940), the latter killed in action in the Pas de Calais in 1940 aged 20. Major Van de Weyer died 1 April 1946, aged 75.[4]

Honours[edit]
Van de Weyer was invested as a Member, Royal Victorian Order (M.V.O.) in 1900.[4] His hybrid buddleja cultivar 'Golden Glow' was accorded the Award of Merit by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1923.

Publications[edit]
Weyer, van de, W. (1920). Buddleja weyeriana. Gardeners' Chronicle ser. 3, 68: 181. 1920.

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Day of marriage December 17, 1908

  • The temperature on December 17, 1908 was between 1.9 °C and 9.2 °C and averaged 6.4 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.2 hours of sunshine (41%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1908: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.7 million citizens.
    • January 21 » New York City passes the Sullivan Ordinance, making it illegal for women to smoke in public, only to have the measure vetoed by the mayor.
    • January 30 » Indian pacifist and leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is released from prison by Jan C. Smuts after being tried and sentenced to two months in jail earlier in the month.
    • April 8 » Harvard University votes to establish the Harvard Business School.
    • September 27 » Production of the Model T automobile begins at the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit.
    • December 2 » Puyi becomes Emperor of China at the age of two.
    • December 28 » The 7.1 Mw  Messina earthquake shakes Southern Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing between 75,000 and 200,000.

Day of death April 1, 1946

  • The temperature on April 1, 1946 was between 1.5 °C and 16.2 °C and averaged 8.6 °C. There was 9.1 hours of sunshine (70%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
  • In The Netherlands , there was from July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1946: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 9.3 million citizens.
    • February 8 » The first portion of the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, the first serious challenge to the popularity of the Authorized King James Version, is published.
    • June 5 » A fire in the La Salle Hotel in Chicago, Illinois, kills 61 people.
    • September 24 » Cathay Pacific Airways is founded in Hong Kong.
    • December 19 » Start of the First Indochina War.
    • December 20 » The popular Christmas film It's a Wonderful Life is first released in New York City.
    • December 25 » The first European self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction is initiated within the Soviet Union's F-1 nuclear reactor.


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