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thumb|right | Queen Victoria, the medal’s namesake The '''Victoria Medal of Honour''' ('''VMH''') is awarded to British horticulturists resident in the United Kingdom whom the Royal Horticultural Society Council considers deserving of special honour by the Society.<ref name="agm04">{{Citation|author=Royal Horticultural Society |year=2005|title=Summary of the 200th Annual General Meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society|chapter=Recipients of Awards for 2004 }}</ref>

The award was established in 1897 "in perpetual remembrance of Her Majesty's glorious reign, and to enable the Council to confer honour on British horticulturists." The Society's rules state that only sixty-three horticulturists can hold the VMH at any given time, in commemoration of the sixty-three years of Queen Victoria's reign. Therefore, the honour is not awarded every year, but may be made to multiple recipients in other years.

==Awards==

===1897 – The first 60 medallists=== The first 60 medals were awarded on 26 October 1897:<ref name=VMH1897>{{cite book |first=Brent |last=Elliott |title=Victoria Medal of Honour 1897 – 1997 |publisher=The Royal Horticultural Society |location=London |date=1997}}</ref> *John Gilbert Baker (1834–1920) *Isaac Bayley Balfour (1853–1922) *Peter Barr (1826–1909) *Archibald F Barron (1835–1903) *Edward John Beale (1835–1902) *William Boxall (1844–1910) *William Bull (1828–1902) *George Bunyard (1841–1919) *Frederick William Burbidge (1847–1905) *William Crump (1843–1932) *Richard Dean (1830–1905) *George A Dickson (c1835 – 1909) *Henry Honeywood D'ombrain (1818–1905) *Charles Thomas Druery (1843–1917) *Malcolm Dunn (1837–1899) *Henry Nicholson Ellacombe (1822–1916) *Henry John Elwes (1846–1922) *Michael Foster (1836–1907) *John Fraser (1821–1900) *Paul George (1841–1921) *George Gordon (1841–1914) *John Heal (c1841 – 1925) *George Henslow (1835–1925) *Hermann Carl Gottlieb Herbst (c1830 – 1904) *Samuel Reynolds Hole (1819–1904) *Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817–1911) *Francis Daltry Horner (c1838 – 1912) *James Hudson (1846–1932) *Gertrude Jekyll (1843–1932) *Peter Edmund Kay (1853–1909) *John Laing (1823–1900) *Charles Maries (1851–1902) *James McIndoe (1836–1910) *Henry Ernest Milner (1845–1906) *Edwin Molyneux (1851–1921) *George Monro (c1847 – 1920) *Frederick William Moore (1857–1949) *Daniel Morris (1844–1933) *George Nicholson (1847–1908) *James O'Brien (1842–1930) *William Paul (1822–1905) *T Francis Rivers (1831–1899) *Lionel Walter Rothschild (1868–1937) *Frederick Sander (1847–1920) *Henry Schröder (1824–1910) *John Seden (1840–1921) *Nathaniel Newman Sherwood (1846–1916) *James Smith (1837–1903) *Martin Ridley Smith ( – 1908) *Walter Speed (c1835 – 1921) Head Gardener at Penrhyn Castle, Wales<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gardens-guide.com/gardenpages/_0082.htm|title=Penrhyn Castle (Wales) © Open Garden at Gardens-Guide.com}}</ref> *Arthur Warwick Sutton (1854–1925) *Owen Thomas (1843–1923) *William Thompson (1823–1903) *David Thomson (1823–1909) *Harry Turner (c1848 – 1906) *Ellen Willmott (1858–1934) *George Fergusson Wilson (1822–1902) *Charles Wolley-Dod (1826–1904) *John Wright (1836–1916) *George Wythes (1851–1916)

===1900–1909=== *1900 **George Herbert Engleheart (1851–1936)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wiltshire-opc.org.uk/Items/Dinton/Dinton%20-%20George%20Herbert%20Engleheart.pdf|title=George Herbert Engleheart|publisher=Wiltshire OPC Project|access-date=18 December 2016}}</ref> breeder of daffodils ** Trevor Lawrence (1831–1913), President of the Royal Horticultural Society 1885 to 1913 *1901 ** George King (1840–1909) ** Eleanor Ormerod<ref name= GW>{{cite book|title=Gardening Women: Their Stories From 1600 to the Present|first= Catherine|last = Horwood}}</ref> ** James Sweet, Messrs J. Sweet & Sons Ltd, nurserymen, Whetstone<ref>{{cite book|first=Harold|last=Fletcher|title=The Story of the Royal Horticultural Society|year=1969|publisher=Oxford University Press|page=246}}</ref> *1902 ** Mordecai Cubitt Cooke (1825–1914), Mycologist<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=thmPzIltAV8C&oi=fnd&pg=PP11&sig=81UGsCDc1DxLV3JAWviltyHD_bY&dq=%22Mordecai+Cooke%22#PPA166,M1 Desmond, Ray and Ellwood, Christine (1994) ''Dictionary of British and Irish Botanists and Horticulturists: Including Plant Collectors, Flower Painters and Garden Designers'' Taylor & Francis Ltd. and The Natural History Museum, London, UK, p. 166] {{ISBN|0-85066-843-3}}</ref> *1903 **Thomas Smith, Daisy Hill Nursery *1904 ** Edward Mawley (1842–1916) *1905 ** Henry Eckford (1823–1905) <ref>{{cite ODNB|id=96775|title=Eckford, Henry (1823–1905), gardener and hybridist|author=Urquhart, Suki|year=2009|freearticle=y }}</ref> *1906 ** Richard Irwin Lynch (1850–1924), Curator of the Cambridge University Botanic Garden<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gerbera.org/richard-irwin-lynch/|title=Richard Irwin Lynch|publisher=gerbera.org|access-date= 18 December 2016}}</ref> ** Harry Veitch (1840–1924) * 1909 ** William Botting-Hemsley (1843–1924). Keeper of the Herbarium and library, Kew Gardens.

===1910–1919=== *1911 **Charles Robert Fielder (1857-1946 Bramshaw) *1912 **Ernest Henry Wilson (1876–1930) <ref>{{cite web|url=http://arboretum.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/III_EHW_2012.pdf|title=Ernest Henry Wilson (1876–1930) papers, 1896–1952: Guide.|publisher=Harvard University|access-date= 18 December 2016}}</ref> *1916 **Edward Augustus Bowles (1865–1954) *1917 ** William Jackson Bean (1863–1947) ** Frederick Chittenden (1873–1950),<ref>{{cite book|url=http://www.davidmoore.org.uk/Assets/Printed_documents/my_reprints/1996_WebsterMoore_Ainsworths-Brief-Biographies-British-Mycologists.pdf|title=Brief Biographies of British Mycologists|first=Geoffrey|last=Ainsworth|page=41}}</ref> first Director of the RHS Wisley Garden. ** Sir Herbert Eustace Maxwell (1845–1937) **Peter Veitch (1850–1929)

===1920–1929=== *1921 ** George Forrest (1873–1932)<ref>{{Cite web|title=RHS Garden Wisley: Plants of Current Interest|publisher=Royal Horticultural Society |date=2004|url=https://www.rhs.org.uk/WhatsOn/gardens/wisley/archive/wisleypci04apr.asp|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060116140353/http://www.rhs.org.uk/WhatsOn/gardens/Wisley/archive/wisleypci04apr.asp|archive-date=16 January 2006|url-status=dead}}</ref> *1922 ** Arthur Boscawen (1862–1935)<ref name=hort>{{cite book|last1=Fordham|first1=Ray|title=Canon Boscawen of Ludgvan and his Contributions to Horticulture. '''In''' Ludgvan; A Century of Horticulture 1903–2003|date=2003|publisher=Ludgvan Horticultural Society|location=Ludgvan|pages=17–21}}</ref> *1924 ** Arthur Grove<ref>Massachusetts Horticultural Society – Forgotten Books</ref> *1925 ** Samuel B. Dicks (1845–1926), seedsman<ref>{{cite book|title=Dictionary Of British And Irish Botanists And Horticulturists|first=Ray|last=Desmond|page=206}}</ref> ** William Rickatson Dykes (1827–1925)<ref>{{cite web| title=Tulipa | url=http://www.botanic.cam.ac.uk/Botanic/Plant.aspx?p=27&ix=12&pid=0&prcid=0&ppid=0 | publisher=Cambridge Botanic Garden | access-date=8 October 2014}}</ref> ** William Wright Smith (1875–1956)<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://rsbm.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/roybiogmem/3/192.full.pdf|title=Memoirs- William Wright Smith, 1875–1956|journal=Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society |date=November 1957 |volume=3 |pages=192–202 |publisher= Royal Society|doi=10.1098/rsbm.1957.0013 |doi-access=free|s2cid=57944545 |access-date= 13 December 2017}}</ref> ** George Yeld (1845–1938)<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/stream/gardenersyearboo033296mbp#page/n317/mode/2up | title=The Gardeners Year Book 1930 | publisher=Philip Allan And Company Limited. | author=Moutray Read, D. H. | year=1930 | location=London | pages=290| author-link=Rose Moutray Read }}</ref> *1926 ** Herbert George Alexander (orchid grower) **Frederick Vincent Theobald (1868–1930)<ref>{{cite book|url=http://www.davidmoore.org.uk/Assets/Printed_documents/my_reprints/1996_WebsterMoore_Ainsworths-Brief-Biographies-British-Mycologists.pdf|title=Brief Biographies of British Mycologists|first=Geoffrey|last=Ainsworth|page=161}}</ref> *1927 ** Frederick Robert Stephen Balfour (1873–1945)<ref>{{cite book|url=http://www.davidmoore.org.uk/Assets/Printed_documents/my_reprints/1996_WebsterMoore_Ainsworths-Brief-Biographies-British-Mycologists.pdf|title=Brief Biographies of British Mycologists|first=Geoffrey|last=Ainsworth|page=7}}</ref> *1928 ** W. Nelmes *1929 ** Sir William Lawrence (1870–1934),<ref name=GW/> Lionel de Rothschild (1882–1942)<ref name= GW/>

===1930–1939=== *1931 **Laura McLaren, Baroness Aberconway (1854–1933)<ref name= GW/> *1933 **George Percival Baker (1856–1951) **Frederick William Millard (1864–1964) *1934 **Henry McLaren, 2nd Baron Aberconway (1879–1953) <ref name= GW/> **George Monro (1876–1951) *1935 **Amos Perry (1871–1953), of Perry's Plant Farm<ref name= GW/> *1936 **Stephenson Robert Clarke (1862–1948), of Borde Hill<ref>{{Cite magazine|author=Harrison, Helen|year=2012|title=Plant hunting for Borde Hill |magazine=The Plantsman |issue=June |pages=90–95|url=https://www.rhs.org.uk/about-the-rhs/publications/magazines/the-plantsman/2012-issues/june/Plant-hunting-for-Borde-Hill |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150420220600/https://www.rhs.org.uk/about-the-rhs/publications/magazines/the-plantsman/2012-issues/june/Plant-hunting-for-Borde-Hill |archive-date=20 April 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> **James Comber (1866–1953), of Nymans, Handcross<ref>{{cite web|url=http://haywardsheath.inuklocal.co.uk/news/garden-history|title=GREAT GARDENS OF SUSSEX – Local News – Haywards Heath West Sussex UK}}</ref> ** Frederick Augustus Secrett (1886–1964) <ref>{{cite book|title=Dictionary Of British And Irish Botantists And Horticulturalists|first=Roy|last=Desmond|page=2676}}</ref> *1938 ** William Fleming Bewley (1891–1976) <ref>{{cite book|url=http://www.davidmoore.org.uk/Assets/Printed_documents/my_reprints/1996_WebsterMoore_Ainsworths-Brief-Biographies-British-Mycologists.pdf|title=Brief Biographies of British Mycologists|first=Geoffrey|last=Ainsworth|page=15}}</ref> ** Frederick George Preston (1882–1964).<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Gilmour|first=J S L|date=1964|title=Frederick George Preston M.A., V.M.H., A.H.R.H.S.|url=https://issuu.com/kewguildjournal/docs/v8s69p381-all|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220706143149/https://issuu.com/kewguildjournal/docs/v8s69p381-all|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 6, 2022|journal=The Journal of the Kew Guild|volume=8|pages=470–471}}</ref> *1939 **Charles Percival Raffill M.B.E.(1876–1951), Curator, Kew Gardens. Raffill was also honoured in 1934 as an Associate of Honour of the Royal Horticultural Society (AHRHS).<ref>{{cite journal|title= Kew Guild Journal 1951, Vol V11. No. LV11| page=43}}</ref>

===1940–1949=== * 1940 ** Sir Frederick Claude Stern (1884–1967) – Highdown chalk garden * 1941 ** Edwin Lawrence Hillier – Hillier Nurseries <ref name= PLC>{{cite book|title= Plant Lover's Companion: Plants, People and Places|first=Julia|last=Brittain}}</ref> * 1942 ** Lady Iris Lawrence <ref name= GW/> * 1943 ** Arthur Disbrowe Cotton * 1944 ** Arthur Dorrien-Smith (1876–1955) ** John Hutchinson (1884–1972) <ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/heritage/people/hutchinson.html |title=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: History and Heritage: People: Botanists: John Hutchinson |access-date=2008-08-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080830000207/http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/heritage/people/hutchinson.html |archive-date=2008-08-30 |url-status=usurped }}</ref> * 1945 ** Fred Streeter (1879–1975) – horticulturalist and broadcaster * 1946 ** Vera Higgins (1892–1962) <ref name= GW/> * 1948 ** Wilfrid Fox (1875–1962) – Winkworth Arboretum<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cmsen.eghn.org/ethg-winkworth-garten.html|title=Winkworth Arboretum|publisher=European Garden Heritage Network|access-date=23 December 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161223203132/http://cmsen.eghn.org/ethg-winkworth-garten.html|archive-date=23 December 2016|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref> * 1949 ** Ernest Ballard (1870–1952) ** Harry Higgott Thomas (1876–1956) – Editor of ''Popular Gardening''

===1950–1959=== *1951 **Peter Crichton Kay (1889–1954)<ref>{{cite book|title=Dictionary Of British And Irish Botanists And Horticulturists Including plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers|first=Ray|last=Desmond|date=25 February 1994 |page=393|publisher=CRC Press|isbn=9780850668438}}</ref> *1952 **Albert Maurice Amsler (1877–1952)<ref>{{cite journal|title=British Medical Journal page 1412 |date=June 1952|pmc=2023860|pmid=14935290|volume=1|issue = 4773|journal=Br Med J|page=1412|doi=10.1136/bmj.1.4773.1410-c}}</ref> ** Collingwood Ingram (1880-1981)<ref>Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society (1953) volume 78 page xii</ref> ** Thomas Wallace (1891–1965)<ref>Wallace, Thomas (1891–1965), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004 [https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/36704]</ref> *1953 **Archibald Park Balfour **Sir David Bowes-Lyon (1902–1961)<ref>{{cite book|title=Dictionary Of British And Irish Botanists And Horticulturists|first= Ray|last=Desmond|page=90}}</ref> **C Edward Hudson<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=thmPzIltAV8C&pg=PA362|title=Dictionary Of British And Irish Botanists And Horticulturists Including plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers|first=Ray|last=Desmond|date=25 February 1994|publisher=CRC Press|via=Google Books|isbn=9780850668438}}</ref> * 1954 ** Raymond Henry Stoughton (1903–1979) *1955 **Robert L. Scarlett : for his contributions to horticultural experimental work in Scotland & United Kingdom. ** Lilian Snelling (1879–1972)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rhs.org.uk/learning/publications/pubs/garden0703/library.asp|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050315071128/http://www.rhs.org.uk/learning/publications/pubs/garden0703/library.asp|url-status=dead|archive-date=15 March 2005|title=Royal Horticultural Society – Publications: The Garden July 2003|date=15 March 2005}}</ref> *1957 ** William MacDonald Campbell<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.kewguild.org.uk/media/pdfs/v8s69p381-76.pdf |title="In Memoriam Volume 8, Number 69, (1964)" Kew Guild |access-date=2013-10-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150610211255/http://www.kewguild.org.uk/media/pdfs/v8s69p381-76.pdf |archive-date=2015-06-10 |url-status=dead }}</ref> ** Harold Roy Fletcher(1907–1978), Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh<ref name="ARS" /> ** John Scott Lennox Gilmour (1906–1995)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://agardenthroughtime.wordpress.com/themes/john-gilmour/|title=John Scott Lennox Gilmour|date=23 May 2013 |publisher=Wordpress|access-date= 17 December 2016}}</ref> ** Harold Hillier (1905–1985) – Hillier Nurseries <ref name="PLC" /> *1958 **Frank P. Knight (1903–1985), Director of Wisley Garden<ref name="ARS">{{cite journal|url=http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/JARS/v15n1/v15n1-grothaus.htm|title=Journal American Rhododendron Society|journal=The Quarterly Bulletin of the American Rhododendron Society |date=January 1961 |volume=15 |issue=1 |publisher= Virginia Tech|access-date= 18 December 2016|last1=Grothaus |first1=L. C. }}</ref>

===1960–1969=== *1960 ** Maurice Mason (1912–1993) *1961 ** Sir Edward Bolitho of Trengwainton, Penzance ** Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother (1900–2002) <ref>[http://www.anth.rhs.org.uk/Learning/Publications/pubs/garden0502/newsqueenmum.htm "Publications: The Garden May 2002: News" Royal Horticultural Society]</ref> ** William Gregor MacKenzie, curator of Chelsea Physic Garden<ref>[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-bill-mackenzie-1578479.html Obituary: Bill MacKenzie] ''The Independent'', 20 October 1995</ref> ** Thomas Hope Findlay (1910-1994) Keeper of Gardens Windsor Great Park 1943-1975 **Charles McLaren, 3rd Baron Aberconway (1913–2003)<ref name= GW/> *1963 ** S. Millar Gault <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gardeningdatafiles.com/roses-in-regents-park|title=Roses in Regent's Park|publisher=Gardening data Files|access-date= 13 August 2018}}</ref> ** Sir James Horlick (1886–1972) of The Island of Gigha<ref>{{cite journal|journal=RHS Journal|title=Awards |date=April 1964|page=146}}</ref> *1964 ** Gwendolyn Anley <ref name= GW/> ** Hans Hvass – Danish writer on natural history *1965 ** John Paul Wellington Furse (1904–1978) <ref>{{cite book|title=Dictionary Of British And Irish Botanists And Horticulturists|first=Ray|last=Desmond|page=267}}</ref> ** Beatrix Havergal (1901–1980) <ref name= GW/> ** William T. Stearn (1911–2001) *1967 ** Arthur Hellyer (1902–1993) – RHS. Horticultural writer and journalist. ** Sir Giles Rolls Loder, 3rd Baronet (1914–1999) of Leonardslee, Lower Beeding, Horsham<ref name="rhs.org.uk"/><ref>[RHS Journal, February 20th 1968]</ref><ref name="independent.co.uk">{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituaries-sir-giles-loder-bt-1082282.html%22Sir |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220817/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituaries-sir-giles-loder-bt-1082282.html%22Sir |archive-date=2022-08-17 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Obituaries: Sir Giles Loder Bt|website=Independent.co.uk |date=22 March 1999}}</ref> *1968 ** Graham Stuart Thomas (1909–2003)<ref name="rhs.org.uk">{{Cite web |url=http://www.rhs.org.uk/Learning/publications/pubs/garden0603/newsobituaries.asp |title="Publications: The Garden June 2003: Obituaries" Royal Horticultural Society |access-date=2007-09-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929092029/http://www.rhs.org.uk/Learning/publications/pubs/garden0603/newsobituaries.asp |archive-date=2007-09-29 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.timberpress.com/media/getAuthorByID.cfm?AuthorID=57|title=Timber Press isn't sure what you're looking for, exactly|access-date=2006-12-07|archive-date=2007-09-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927003452/http://www.timberpress.com/media/getAuthorByID.cfm?AuthorID=57|url-status=dead}}</ref>

===1970–1979=== *1970 ** Roy Hay (1910–1989)<ref>''Colour Dictionary of Garden Plants Book'', About the authors</ref> ** Alan F. Mitchell (1922–1995) <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.treeregister.org/founders.shtml|title=The Tree Register|publisher=Tree Register|access-date= 22 December 2016}}</ref> *1971 ** Alan Bloom (1906–2005)<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20121021064043/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-131153480.html Leapman, Michael (5 April 2005) "Obituary: Alan Bloom: Innovative Norfolk nurseryman" ''The Independent'' London, UK, April 5, 2005]</ref><ref>[https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/norfolk/4398931.stm "Tributes to a renowned plantsman" 31 March 2005 ''BBC News'']</ref> ** Frances Perry (1907–1993) ** Patrick Synge (1910–1982) *1973 ** Julia Clements<ref name = GW/> *1974 ** Roy Copeman Elliott (Alpine gardener) ** Martin O. Slocock <ref name= RHS/> *1975 ** Herbert Rawnsley Barr (1903–1987) <ref>{{cite book|title=Dictionary Of British And Irish Botanists And Horticulturists |first=Ray|last=Desmond|page=48}}</ref> ** Valerie Finnis (1924–2006) <ref>Obituary Royal Horticultural Society 2006</ref> *1976 ** Christopher D. Brickell <ref name=RHS/> ** John Pilkington Hudson (1910–2007)<ref>ODNB entry; son's website: [http://richardhudson.byethost2.com/family/jph/johnhudson.htm Retrieved 24 July 2011.]</ref> ** Lady Marie Loder of Leonardslee, Lower Beeding, Horsham<ref name="rhs.org.uk"/><ref name="independent.co.uk"/><ref>[RHS Journal, February 1977]</ref> *1977 ** Percy Thrower (1913–1988), Television gardener <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.visitshrewsbury.co.uk/shrewsbury-famous-people/percy-thrower.html|title=Shrewsbury's (and the first) celebrity gardener|publisher=Shropshire Tourism|access-date= 22 December 2016}}</ref> ** Mrs Desmond Underwood<ref name= GW/> *1978 ** W Martin Robinson, vegetable expert. *1979 ** Christopher Lloyd (1921–2006)<ref>[https://archive.today/20110604091703/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-2015843,00.html "Obituary: Christopher Lloyd" ''The Times'' January 30, 2006]</ref>

===1980–1989=== *1980 **Leonard Broadbent (1916–2002) – Professor in Biology at the University of Bath<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nessgardens.org.uk/whats-on/calendar/the-broadbent-lecture-2016-wild-about-perennials-with-noel-kingsbury/|title=The Broadbent Lecture 2016: Wild about Perennials with Noel Kingsbury|publisher=Ness Botanic gardens|access-date=23 December 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161224095036/http://www.nessgardens.org.uk/whats-on/calendar/the-broadbent-lecture-2016-wild-about-perennials-with-noel-kingsbury/|archive-date=24 December 2016|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref> **Sheila Macqueen – Flower arranger<ref name=GW/> *1981 **John Bond (1932–2001) – Keeper of Windsor Great Park and the Savill Gardens<ref>{{cite web|title=Obituary: John Bond|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1322783/John-Bond.html|website=The Telegraph|access-date=19 June 2016|date=16 February 2001}}</ref> **Sir John Heathcoat-Amory, 3rd Baronet (1894–1972) <ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-joyce-wethered-1295292.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220817/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-joyce-wethered-1295292.html |archive-date=2022-08-17 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Obituary: Joyce Wethered|newspaper= The Independent|access-date= 22 December 2016}}</ref> and Lady Heathcoat-Amory (1901–1997)<ref name= GW/> *1982 **Adrian Frank Posnette *1983 **John Stewart Mattock<ref name= RHS/> *1984 ** Kath Dryden (−2009) – alpine plant expert<ref name="GardenAugust2009p511">''The Garden'', August 2009, page 511 (Royal Horticultural Society)</ref> *1985 ** Adrian Bloom – Bressingham Steam and Gardens<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.timberpress.com/media/getAuthorByID.cfm?AuthorID=175|title=Timber Press isn't sure what you're looking for, exactly|access-date=2006-12-07|archive-date=2007-09-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927003458/http://www.timberpress.com/media/getAuthorByID.cfm?AuthorID=175|url-status=dead}}</ref> ** Douglas Mackay Henderson (1927–2007), Keeper, Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh ** Fred Whitsey (1919–2009)- Gardening correspondent of The Daily Telegraph *1986 ** Lady Anne Berry (1919–2019)<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.rhs.org.uk/about-the-rhs/pdfs/about-the-rhs/our-structure/green-manual-2014-(correct-as-at-25-march-2013) |title=RHS Green Manual |access-date=2015-11-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304075355/https://www.rhs.org.uk/about-the-rhs/pdfs/about-the-rhs/our-structure/green-manual-2014-(correct-as-at-25-march-2013) |archive-date=2016-03-04 |url-status=dead }}</ref> ** Robin A.E. Herbert (1934–2024) <ref name= RHS/> Former President of RHS ** John B. Simmons (1937–) <ref name= RHS/> *1987 ** William Lawrence Banks <ref name=RHS>{{cite web|url=https://www.rhs.org.uk/about-the-rhs/pdfs/about-the-rhs/our-structure/green-manual-2014-(correct-as-at-25-march-2013)|title=Green Manual|publisher=RHS|access-date=24 December 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304075355/https://www.rhs.org.uk/about-the-rhs/pdfs/about-the-rhs/our-structure/green-manual-2014-(correct-as-at-25-march-2013)|archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref> ** Beth Chatto (1923–2018)<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.rhs.org.uk/publications/pubs/garden0802/newshonours.asp |title="Publications: The Garden August 2002: Honours for horticulturists" Royal Horticultural Society |access-date=2007-09-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929092223/http://www.rhs.org.uk/publications/pubs/garden0802/newshonours.asp |archive-date=2007-09-29 |url-status=dead }}</ref> *1988 ** Roy Lancaster (1937–)<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/genres/factual/homesandgardens "BBC Gardening: TV and Radio: Presenter biographies: J to L: Roy Lancaster" ''BBC Gardening'']</ref> *1989 ** Carolyn Hardy (1930–2016)- Chairman, National Gardens Scheme <ref name= GW/> ** A.D. Schilling <ref name= RHS/>

===1990–1999=== *1990 **Sylvia Crowe(1901–1997) <ref name= GW/> ** D.J. Fuller <ref name= RHS/> *1991 ** P. Cox <ref name=RHS/> ** Brian Mathew <ref name= RHS/> ** Frederick Alkmund Roach (1909–2004) <ref>{{cite web|title=Obituary: Frederick Roach|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1468269/Frederick-Roach.html|website=www.telegraph.co.uk|publisher=The Telegraph|date=31 July 2004|access-date=19 June 2016}}</ref> ** Miriam Rothschild (1908–2005)<ref name= GW/> ** D.J. Sales <ref name= RHS/> *1993 ** Alan Hardy (1926–1999) – Sandling Estate <ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.lib.virginia.edu/brown/sciscan/rhododendrons/ran9902/people.htm |title="Rhododendron People Page" ''Rhododendron And Azalea News'' June 1999 |access-date=2006-09-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060908013625/http://www.lib.virginia.edu/brown/sciscan/rhododendrons/ran9902/people.htm |archive-date=2006-09-08 |url-status=dead }}</ref> ** Mary Shirville Newnes (1926–2020) – flower arranger<ref name= GW/> ** Charles Notcutt (1935–2015) *1994 ** Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe (1900–1996) – Landscape Designer ** James Smart – of Marwood Hill Garden <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.marwoodhillgarden.co.uk/history-of-the-garden.html|title=A brief History of Marwood Hill Gardens|publisher= Marwood Hill gardens|access-date= 22 December 2016}}</ref> *1995 ** Raymond J Evison(1944–)<ref>HTA_New_November_2016.pdf</ref> ** David McClintock (1913–2001) <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1365681/David-McClintock.html|title=David McClintock Obituary|access-date= 31 December 2019}}</ref> ** Helen Robinson (1919–2004) – Hyde Hall <ref name= GW/> *1996 ** John G. Hillier – Hillier Nurseries <ref name= PLC/> ** Penelope Hobhouse (1929–) <ref name= GW/> ** C.R.M. Notcutt <ref name= RHS/> *1997 ** J.W. Blanchard <ref name= RHS/> ** Mary Grierson (1912–2012) – Botanical artist <ref name= GW/> ** John Palmer, Earl of Selborne<ref name= RHS/> *1998 ** Joyce Stewart (1936–2011) – Director of Horticulture, RHS <ref name= GW/> **Rosemary Verey (1918–2001) <ref name= GW/> *1999 ** Hal Moggridge <ref name= RHS/> ** A. Moon <ref name= RHS/> ** Sir Ghillean Tolmie Prance (1937–)<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ausable.org/au.boardnstaff.gprance.cfm |title=Au Sable Institute of Environmental Studies Board |access-date=2006-03-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060302100857/http://www.ausable.org/au.boardnstaff.gprance.cfm |archive-date=2006-03-02 |url-status=dead }}</ref> ** G.H. Rae <ref name= RHS/>

===2000–2009=== *2001 ** P. Erskine <ref name=RHS/> *2002 ** David Austin (1926–2018) for his rose breeding<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.icons.org.uk/nom/nominations/david-austin-english-roses|title=Welcome to ICONS – Icons of England|access-date=2013-08-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080727015649/http://www.icons.org.uk/nom/nominations/david-austin-english-roses|archive-date=2008-07-27|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/shropshire/features/2002/04/english_rose.shtml " The world's favourite flower – grown in Shropshire" ''BBC Shropshire'' April 2002]</ref> *2003<ref>{{cite web|title=Royal Horticultural Society awards top gardening gongs|url=http://www.rhs.org.uk/news/honours2003.asp|website=Royal Horticultural Society|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040429012903/http://www.rhs.org.uk/news/honours2003.asp|archive-date=29 April 2004}}</ref> ** Peter Beales (1936–2013) for his rose breeding and media promotion of gardening ** Andrew Dunn for his pioneering of virus-free rootstock ** Peter Seabrook (1935–2022) for his rose breeding *2004<ref name="agm04"/> ** Ray Bilton for his work with orchid hybrids ** David S. Ingram (1941–) for his pioneering research into plant diseases ** Alan Titchmarsh for his broadcasting and authorial gardening educational outreach<ref>[http://www.trinityhouse.co.uk/media_centre/press_releases/press_release.html?id=8967 "Alan Titchmarsh To Judge Trinity House's Lighthouse Photography Competition" Trinity House] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060923214349/http://www.trinityhouse.co.uk/media_centre/press_releases/press_release.html?id=8967 |date=September 23, 2006 }}</ref> *2005<ref>{{cite web|title=RHS honours four with horticulture's highest accolade|url=http://www.rhs.org.uk/news/pressreleases/rhsawards010705.asp|website=Royal Horticultural Society|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051120235301/http://www.rhs.org.uk/news/pressreleases/rhsawards010705.asp|archive-date=20 November 2005|date=1 July 2005}}</ref> ** Martin Lane Fox for his work in landscape garden design ** Tony Lord for his work as a garden photographer and horticultural consultant ** Edmund Leopold de Rothschild for his work with rhododendron hybrids ** Tom Wood for his administrative work promoting horticulture *2006<ref>{{cite web|title=RHS honours champions of organic gardening, orchids and community horticulture|url=http://www.rhs.org.uk/news/pressreleases/awards290606.asp|website=Royal Horticultural Society|date=29 June 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060901072605/http://www.rhs.org.uk/news/pressreleases/awards290606.asp|archive-date=1 September 2006}}</ref> ** Jim Buttress, for his work as a garden show judge ** Sibylle Kreutzberger, for her work at Sissinghurst Castle in Kent ** Dr. Henry Oakeley, for his scientific work on orchids, the genera ''Lycaste'', ''Ida'' and ''Anguloa'' ** Pamela Schwerdt, for her work at Sissinghurst Castle in Kent *2007<ref>[http://212.78.84.166/Learning/Publications/pubs/garden0707/newsrhs.htm ''The Garden'', July 2007, RHS news – ''Royal presentations for Society awards'']{{Dead link|date=July 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> ** Colin Ellis – "for his long and distinguished service since 1983 with RHS Council and numerous committees." ** Christopher Grey-Wilson – for "his many achievements as botanist, photographer, botanical explorer and author of many books and articles." ** Sir Richard Carew Pole (1938–2024) – former RHS President ** Brian Self – "for his lifetime of service to amateur and professional fruit growers." *2008 ** John Ravenscroft – "for his plantsmanship, entrepreneurial talent and encyclopaedic knowledge of plants." *2009 ** Charles Baring, 2nd Baron Howick of Glendale <ref name="GardenAugust2009"/> ** Charles III – "for his passion for plants, sustainable gardening and the environment."<ref>{{cite web|title=Prince of Wales receives VMH|url=http://www.rhs.org.uk/news/princeofwalesVMH.asp|website=Royal Horticultural Society|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090521090035/http://www.rhs.org.uk/news/princeofwalesVMH.asp|archive-date=21 May 2009|date=18 May 2009}}</ref> ** John Humphris<ref name="GardenAugust2009"/> ** Lady Christine Skelmersdale <ref name="GardenAugust2009">''The Garden'', August 2009, page 512 (Royal Horticultural Society)</ref>

===2010–present=== *2010 ** Peter R. Dawson <ref name= RHS/> ** Michael Hickson <ref name= RHS/> ** Robert T. Hillier <ref name= RHS/> ** John Massey – "for his valuable contribution to plantbreeding " ** Dowager Marchioness Salisbury <ref name= RHS/> *2011<ref name="RHS2011">{{cite web | url = https://www.rhs.org.uk/about-the-rhs/pdfs/about-the-rhs/mission-and-strategy/past-annual-reports/agm2011minutes | title = RHS AGM Minutes July 2011 | access-date = 2015-11-01 | publisher = Royal Horticultural Society | archive-date = 2016-01-15 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160115213238/https://www.rhs.org.uk/about-the-rhs/pdfs/about-the-rhs/mission-and-strategy/past-annual-reports/agm2011minutes | url-status = dead }}</ref> ** Giles Coode-Adams ** Maurice C. Foster ** Richard Webb *2012<ref>{{cite web|title=Awards for outstanding contribution to horticulture|url=http://www.rhs.org.uk/News/Awards-for-outstanding-contribution-to-horticultur|website=Royal Horticultural Society|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120608203152/http://www.rhs.org.uk/News/Awards-for-outstanding-contribution-to-horticultur|archive-date=8 June 2012|date=7 June 2012}}</ref> **Stephen Blackmore **Alice Boyd, Viscountess of Merton **David Clark **John Parker *2013<ref>{{cite web|title=Outstanding contributions to horticulture|url=http://www.rhs.org.uk/News/Outstanding-contributions-to-horticulture|website=Royal Horticultural Society|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131009201630/http://www.rhs.org.uk/News/Outstanding-contributions-to-horticulture|archive-date=9 October 2013|date=19 April 2013}}</ref> **Nigel Colborn<ref name= RHS/> **Brian Humphrey<ref name= RHS/> *2014 **Chris Sanders<ref>{{cite web|title=2014 RHS Awards for Exceptional Contributions to Horticulture Announced|url=http://press.rhs.org.uk/RHS-Science-and-Advice/Press-releases/2014-RHS-Awards-for-Exceptional-Contributions-to-H.aspx|website=Royal Horticultural Society|access-date=19 June 2016|date=27 January 2014}}</ref> *2015 ''Not awarded'' *2016 <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rhs.org.uk/about-the-rhs/who-we-are/rhs-council/rhs-awards|title=RHS People Awards|publisher=Royal Horticultural Society|access-date= 16 December 2016}}</ref> ** Mark Flanagan (posthumously) ** Johan Hermans *2017 <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rhs.org.uk/about-the-rhs/who-we-are/rhs-council/rhs-awards|title=RHS People Awards|publisher= RHS|access-date= 17 July 2017}}</ref> **Nick Dunn **Jekka McVicar – RH Vice-President *2018 <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rhs.org.uk/about-the-rhs/who-we-are/rhs-council/rhs-awards|title= Awards|publisher= RHS|access-date= 13 August 2018}}</ref> ** Peter Catt ** Carol Klein ** Charles Williams *2019 ** Fergus Garrett ** Tony Kirkham ** Bill Simpson *2020<ref name="RHS-Oct2021">{{cite web |title=RHS People Awards |url=https://www.rhs.org.uk/about-the-rhs/who-we-are/rhs-council/rhs-awards |website=RHS |access-date=4 October 2021}}</ref> ** Christopher Bailes ** Jim Gardiner ** Jim (James) McColl *2022<ref name="RHS-May2022">{{cite web |title=RHS People Awards |url=https://www.rhs.org.uk/about-the-rhs/who-we-are/rhs-council/rhs-awards |website=RHS |access-date=23 May 2022}}</ref> ** Monty Don<ref name="MontyDonVMH">{{cite web |title=The Victoria Medal of Honour presented to me by the Royal Horticultural Society at Chelsea today |url=https://twitter.com/TheMontyDon/status/1528807360927514624 |website=Twitter |access-date=23 May 2022}}</ref> **Brian Duncan **Peter Thoday *2023<ref name="RHS-May2023">{{cite web |title=RHS People Awards |url=https://www.rhs.org.uk/about-the-rhs/who-we-are/rhs-council/rhs-awards |website=RHS |access-date=23 May 2023}}</ref> ** Jim Marshall ** Paul Phillips ** Jon Wheatley *2024<ref>{{Cite journal |date=May 2024 |title=Top gardeners honoured for their impact. |journal=The Garden |pages=15}}</ref> ** Jan Pennings ** Chris Lane ** Neil Lucas *2025<ref name="TheGarden2025">{{cite journal |title=Garden Experts win top accolades |journal=The Garden |date=2025 |volume=150 |issue=5 |page=13}}</ref> ** Sarah Cook ** Martyn Rix ** Ron Scamp *2026<ref name="Allaway2026">{{cite journal |last1=Allaway |first1=Zia |title=The RHS People Awards |journal=The Garden |date=2026 |volume=151 |issue=5 |pages=38–46}}</ref><ref name="RHS-May2026">{{cite web |title=Matthew Biggs awarded Victoria Medal of Honour (VMH)|url=https://www.rhs.org.uk/about-us/articles/matthew-biggs-awarded-highest-honour |website=RHS |access-date=20 May 2026}}</ref> ** Jennifer Trehane ** Philip McMillan Browse ** Linda Philip ** Chris Baines ** Matt Biggs

==See also==

* List of agriculture awards

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== * {{cite web|title=RHS People Awards|url=https://www.rhs.org.uk/about-the-rhs/who-we-are/rhs-council/rhs-awards|website=Royal Horticultural Society|access-date=19 June 2016}}

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