Celebrating Landscape Architect and Birkenhead Park Superintendent Edward Kemp

"The fluttering testimonials which he has received from numberless visitors to the Birkenhead park... will be sufficient to ensure... a large and liberal patronage."

Today is the birthday of the Landscape Gardener Edward Kemp, who was born on this day in 1817.

Edward Kemp was the landscape gardener and architect at Birkenhead under Joseph Paxton. He went on to become the permanent Superintendent at Birkenhead Park.

After the opening of Birkenhead Park, he placed an ad in the Liverpool Mercury offering his private services for large estate gardens,

[Edward Kemp] begs to offer his services to the Noblemen and Gentlemen in the vicinity of Birkenhead and Liverpool.

The fluttering testimonials which he has received from numberless visitors to the Birkenhead park, induce him to believe that a simple reference to the past and present condition of the park …. will be sufficient to ensure for him a large and liberal patronage.


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