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Tony Hall, (born in 25 September 1773?), was an English Botanist at Kew Gardens until he retired.

Early life
He was the

Research
Tony Hall, the foremost expert on Junos; he retired as head of Kew’s alpine unit and is now an honorary research associate working on a monograph of Junos.

He published Iris capnoides (Vved.) T.Hall & Seisums in Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 167(3): 300 (2011) and

Iris furseorum T.Hall & Seisums, Bot. Mag. (Kew Mag.) 31(3): 257 (2014).POWO Iris heracleana (J.Mart.Rodr. & M.B.Crespo) T.Hall, Brit. Iris Soc. Newslett. 16 (2014), isonym.POWO Iris inconspicua (Vved.) T.Hall & Seisums, Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 167(3): 300 (2011).POWO Iris paropamisensis T.Hall & Seisums, Iris Year Book 2019: 55 (2019). Iris parvula (Vved.) T.Hall & Seisums, Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 167(3): 300 (2011).POWO Iris peshmeniana Güner & T.Hall, Türk. Bitkileri List. 894 (2012).POWO Iris ramsayi T.Hall & B.Mathew, Iris Year Book 53 (2013).POWO Iris rodionenkoi (Lazkov & Naumenko) T.Hall, Brit. Iris Soc. Newslett. 12 (2014). Iris svetlanae (Vved.) T.Hall & Seisums, Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 167(3): 300 (2011). Iris variegata var. reginae (Horvat & M.D.Horvat) T.Hall, Iris Year Book 2017: 47 (2017).POWO Iris vicaria (Vved.) T.Hall & Seisums, Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 167(3): 300 (2011). Iris wallisiae T.Hall & Seisums, Bot. Mag. (Kew Mag.) 31(3): 246 (2014).POWO Iris zaprjagajevii (N.V.Abramov) T.Hall & Seisums, Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 167(3): 300 (2011).

He was for nearly thirty years the Manager of Kew’s Alpine Unit, caring the alpine plants and bulbs and overseeing the Alpine House and Woodland Garden. Hall, renowned for his knowledge of Iris, is the leading authority on Juno Iris and working toward a botanic monograph. Kew continues to provide facilities for Hall’s Juno Project. http://www.humanflowerproject.com/index.php/weblog/2010/06 image

Kew gardens cultivator and serious grower of irises

In 15 September 1998 he was awarded the Foster Memorial Plaque by the British Iris Society. ref http://www.kew.org/kewscientist/ks_14.pdf page=2

on 28 June 2004 he retired from the School of Horticulture http://www.kewguild.org.uk/media/pdfs/v14s109p256-72.pdf page=4

In Curtis's Botanical Magazine Volume 24, Issue 1, pages 34–41, February 2007 he published an article on Iris narynensis by tony hall title=578. IRIS NARYNENSIS url=http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-8748.2007.00557.x/abstract

Tristagma 'Jessie' is a seedling of 'Rolf Fiedler' obtained by Tony Hall of Kew and named for his late sister, Jessie. 'Jessie' has the deepest blue flowers. ref http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/Tristagma date=4 June 2014

Tony Hall, manager of the arboretum at Kew by Bunny Guinness date=14 Aug 2013 title=Is it worth pruning in summer? url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/gardeningadvice/10234120/Is-it-worth-pruning-in-summer.html

Tony Hall, an expert in alpine plants and an honorary research fellow, http://www.internationaloaksociety.org/content/royal-botanic-gardens-kew By Eike Jablonski | October 20, 2010

He co-authored a book - 'Wild Orchids of Southern Africa' with Joyce Stewart, Ted Schelpe, Peter Linder, and Tony Hall (Macmillan South Africa, 1982)

He appeared on 'A Year at Kew' - Season 1 Friday 8:00 PM on BBC Two Premiered Aug 01, 2004 ref http://www.tv.com/shows/a-year-at-kew/season-1/

Has given lectures in New Zealand to the New Zealand Iris Convention. ref http://www.beardlessiris.org/reviews/r2013.pdf page 7 title=The Reveiw, the Group for Bearded Irises,Issue 10 date=Autumn 2013

He co-authored "Molecular studies in the genus Iris L.: A preliminary study" in the Italian journal "Annali Di Botanica" in January 2000. It used a study of plastid (chloroplast) DNA to estimate their phylogenetic relationships and workout the classification of the genus Iris.

He was one of the co-authors of "Tiptoe through the tulips - cultural history, molecular phylogenetics and classification of Tulipa (Liliaceae)" in the Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 172: 280-328 with Christenhusz, M.J.M., Govaerts, R., David, J.C., Borland, K., Roberts, P.S., Tuomisto, A., Buerki, S., Chase, M.W. & Fay, M.F. in 2013.