Harry Wheatcroft Claimed

Harry Wheatcroft was born at 23 Handel St, Sneinton in 1898. He became a famous English rose grower.

Wheatcroft displayed brilliant showmanship with two German Roses. Super Star, exhibited in London before the name had been agreed, appeared as 'the Great Unnamed Seedling.' And he made Fragrant Cloud the talking point of the National Rose Society's autumn show in 1963 by filling a bowl with its wonderfully scented petals. The acquisition of these varieties, with Peace and Queen Elizabeth, are Wheatcroft's enduring achievements, a tribute to his energy, good rose judgment, and entrepreneurial skills.

Having suffered a stroke, Wheatcroft died in Nottingham General Hospital on 8 January 1977.