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See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanning_roper .

Lanning Roper (b 4 Feb1912 West Orange, New Jersey d 1983 22 Mar 1983 Paddington, London, England) was a well known garden designer in England.

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He is an 8th great-grandson of John Roper (c 1577 Hoxne, Suffolk, England - c 1653 Dedham, Massachusetts) who came to the United States in 1637. He is a member of the northern USA branch of the England/Majority USA Roper family (EMUR) .

Lanning Roper received an honors degree in Fine Arts from Harvard University in 1933.

He served in the U.S.

Navy in World War II, and was in charge of Division 67 on D-Day.

Lanning authored seven books and many magazine articles about designing gardens. A book about his work is Lanning Roper and his Gardens by Jane Brown, 1987.

He had many garden commissions all over England and some in Ireland, France, Italy, Switzerland and the United States.

He was commissioned as Prince Charles' landscape gardener in 1981 to do the grounds at Highgrove House i Lanning Roper, Gardener Extraordinaire, carousel JUWA