Hugh Linaker (1872–1938) was a gardener and landscape gardener, who worked on various local and state government projects in the State of Victoria, Australia. Pioneer Women's Memorial

Originally hailing from Ballarat, he was appointed as the Curator of Parks and Gardens for

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1901 where he landscaped the Ararat Botanic Gardens, today better known as Alexandra Park. He applied, and was successful in 1912, to become the 'landscape gardener, Hospital for the Insane,' a position he held until 1937. It is in this role, that Linaker produced multiple designs for the government, and is particularly well-known for his landscape planning associated with psychiatric hospitals. Grounds designed by Linaker for the government include Alexandra Park, Ararat., Aradale Asylum, Buchan Caves,

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, May Day Hills/Beechworth Asylum,

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, Pioneer Women's Memorial Garden within the King's Domain,

Sunbury Asylum Sunbury Lunatic Asylum was a 19th-century mental health facility known as a lunatic asylum, located in Sunbury, Victoria, Australia, first opened in October 1879. Prior to being opened as an asylum, Sunbury was controlled by the Department of ...

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, and the SEC

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of Yallourn He also was involved in the design of private gardens, the best-known of which is

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in Sherbrooke,

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Linaker, Hugh 1872 births 1938 deaths Australian gardeners