Reginald Cory

Reginald Radcliffe Cory (1871 – 1934) was an influential British horticulturalist.

Life

The third son of Sir John Cory, a shipping and coal magnate and philanthropist, he read law at Trinity College, Cambridge and inherited and developed his father's Welsh estate at Dyffryn after his father's death in 1910, together with landscape architect Thomas Mawson. Today it is a National Trust property. He had a passion for plants and botany and in the early 1930s he undertook a number of plant hunting expeditions, and commissioned others, some of the results of which are exhibited at Dyffryn. He would also share plants with other gardens, including the Cambridge Botanic Garden. Amongst other features, the gardens bear evidence of his trips to Italy.