William Masters (1796–1874) FHS was an English nurseryman, garden designer, and amateur botanist.
[1] Masters specialized in the cultivation of exotic plants, and experimental hybridizations.
However, Masters is chiefly remembered for his catalogue Hortus duroverni of 1831, which comprehensively listed and classified many seeds and plants.
[2] One of his introductions, the elm cultivar Ulmus × hollandica 'Superba', commonly known as the Canterbury Elm, became very popular as a street tree, notably in Germany, where it was propagated by the Spath nursery, Berlin.
became Curator of the Museum of Anatomy and Natural History at King's College London, while Maxwell was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and Member of the Linnean Society, and lectured in botany at St. George's Hospital.