Botanist (1796-1874).
William Masters (7 July 1796 – 26 September 1874) FHS was an English nurseryman, garden designer, and amateur botanist. He was a founder of the Canterbury Museum. Masters was born at Canterbury, the son of another William Masters (d. 1834) and his wife Phebe. He founded a nursery in St. Peter's St., Canterbury, initially known as St Peter's Nursery Ground (Kent Gazette 1816), later as Master's Botanical Garden and Nursery Ground (Stapleton's Directory 1838), and later still as Master's Exotic Nursery. Masters specialized in the cultivation of exotic plants, and experimental hybridizations. He