- VIAF ID: 41833814 ( Personal )
- Person
- 1882-1940
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People & Organisations- HAM
- Person
- 1762-1829
Born near Callander and graduated in medicine at the University of Edinburgh. He became a physician, and succeeded Roxburgh briefly at the Calcutta Botanic Garden, but returned to Scotland to establish his right to be head of Clan Buchanan. Francis Hamilton (né Buchanan) changed his name to “Hamilton” to fulfil the requirements of a legacy. Buchanan Hamilton contributed greatly as a botanist, zoologist and geographer in India. He was the first botanist to see Pinus excelsa and Juniperus recurva.
- GEF
- Person
- 1879-1955
- GRJ
- Person
- 1858-1933
- GRH
- Person
- 1855-1912
- GB/NNAF/P134575
- Person
- 1865-1931
- GVE
- Person
Nurseryman and external lecturer at RBGE. Apple variety bred by and named after him.
Grierson, Andrew J.C. (1929-1990)
- AGR
- Person
- 24/04/1929-11/09/1990
After graduating with a degree in Botany from the University of Edinburgh in 1951, Andrew John Charles Grierson (1929-1990) was appointed Scientific Officer at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. A taxonomist, he specialised in Compositae and the Floras of Turkey and Bhutan. (From Obituary by I.C. Hedge and D.G. Long in the Edinburgh Journal of Botany, v.51(2), iii-vii, 1994 http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=7472248)
- GB/NNAF/P138186
- Person
- 1794-1866
Robert Kaye Greville was an English botanist, mycologist and bryologist. He was also an excellent illustrator.