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‘April Hamer’. Fragrant pink blend exhibition HT, Ron Bell, Australia, 1983. [Named for] A patron of the arts, Lady Hamer (nee Mackintosh) is the widow of Sir Rupert Hamer, Premier of Victoria from 1972 to 1981.

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‘Bishop Darlington’ Hybrid musk, George C. Thomas (USA), 1926. Apricot to cream flowers borne all season in sprays on a tall spreading shrub or short climber. Sweet scent. ….. but Captain Thomas preferred to honour an old family friend, James Henry Darlington (1856-1930), the Episcopal bishop of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Consecrated in 1905, Bishop Darlington is remembered as ‘a man of high culture, deeply religious and deeply humane’. Loved as a spiritual leader and philanthropist, he was a tireless worker in the cause of Christian unity, a poet whose verses are still in print, a lover of music – at a time when many saw jazz as the work of the Devil, he invited jazz musicians to play in his cathedral – and a pioneer conservationist. His role in the creation of Pennsylvania’s first wilderness parks is remembered by the section of the Appalachian Trail that bears his name. His rose is a double tribute, first to the good bishop himself and second to the American Rose Society, whose headquarters were then in Harrisburg. Not one of those roses that screams out loud for attention, it is worthy of the honour.

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‘Charles Mallerin’. Hybrid tea, Francis Meilland (France), 1947. Very large shapely flowers in deepest velvet red, borne all season on a very tall bush. Wonderful fragrance. The most beautiful red rose ever raised, and a worthy tribute from the great Francis Meilland to the man who had taught him the art of breeding roses. But it is a temperamental performer, apt to be lanky in growth, stingy with its wonderful flowers and resentful of any but the lightest pruning.

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‘Countess of Stradbroke’. Fragrant red climbing HT. Alister Clark, Australia, 1928. [Named for] Henrietta Violet, Countess of Stradbroke (d. 1947) whose husband the third Earl was Governor of Victoria from 1921 to 1926.

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Henri Martin (1810-1883) is best known in academic circles for his monumental Histoire de France, originally published in fifteen volumes between 1833 and 1836….But history may remember him better as a leader of the group of liberal intellectuals and artists who conceived the idea of creating the Statue of Liberty …. [which] was finally installed in New York Harbour in 1883.

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‘Howard Florey’. Fragrant apricot floribunda, George Thomson, Australia, 2002.
[Named for] ‘Australia’s greatest scientist’ Sir Howard (1898-1968) won the Nobel Prize for his development of penicillin.

(2008)  Page(s) 241.  
 
‘Lady Huntingfield’ Fragrant amber-yellow HT. Alister Clark, Australia, 1937.
[named for] Margaret Eleanor (nee Crosby), wife of Baron Huntingfield, the then Governor of Victoria and later Acting Governor-General. She died in 1943.

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‘Mary McKillop’ Fragrant pink floribunda, Armstrong, USA, 1989. Blessed Mary Mckillop (1842-1909), the South Australian nun who devoted her life to educating poor outback children.

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Nana Mouskouri Fragrant white floribunda, Pat Dickson (UK), 1975. A white rose for the popular Greek singer (1934-) whose signature tune is 'White Roses from Athens'.

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’Nancy Hayward’. Cerise climber, Alister Clark, Australia, 1937. Named (it is said, without her permission) for the daughter of a rose-loving friend of the raiser, Victorian Chief Justice Sir William Irvine.