Reginald Cory

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

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.

[2] Cory was a writer on horticulture, a researcher and liveryman of the Ancient Guild of Gardeners,[1] and became a vice-president of the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) and was a major benefactor of the Society, and other botanical resources including the Cambridge Botanic Garden, where his friend Humphrey Gilbert-Carter was Director.

The residence of the Director, the construction of which he funded in 1924, is named Cory Lodge after him.

The balance of his estate went to the Cambridge Botanic Garden, and the Cory Fund continues to be an important source of revenue for the Garden, which also houses the Cory Laboratories.