| Description | Article about John Williamson, born in 1784 at Fridaythorpe, Williamson was a market gardener of Scarborough, under gardener at Wykeham Abbey, head gardener of Mulgrave Castle near Whitby, and the first curator of the Scarborough Philosophical Society. Includes detail from portrait of John Williamson and illustration of land for the Rotunda Museum at Scarborough which was aquired from Williamson's cousin William Bean, a local naturalist. |