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Lepcha, Rhomoo

  • RHO
  • Pessoa
  • fl.1909-1916

Eudall, Ross

  • Pessoa
  • 1924-2021

Ross Eudall was born in London on the 29th December 1924, an only child. Ross’s father was a butler, which led to Ross spending time in Kilmarnock, Inverness and Edinburgh as he grew up, eventually attending Broughton High School in Edinburgh. He became interested in photography when he was 14, and converted one of the small rooms in the family home in the Stockbridge Colonies into a dark room.

Ross enlisted with the Royal Air Force towards the end of World War II. He trained as an Aerial Observer, which probably involved photography and took him to South Africa, but the War ended and he saw no active service.

On demobilisation Ross returned to Edinburgh, where he found a job working in a wireless shop called the Radio Hospital in Stockbridge. From a young age he was very technically minded - he loved cameras and, when they came along, computers. He was among the first of his peers to get one of the early Amstrad computers.

When Ross heard that the photographer from the Botanics was about to retire he successfully applied for the role, starting in 1948. For the next 40 years, Ross would play a significant role at the Garden. The man he replaced was the photographer Robert Moyes Adam, who himself had worked at RBGE for over 40 years, but was better known as a photographer of Scottish landscapes. Adam worked only in black and white, using a heavy camera and glass plate negatives. Their tenures overlapped for a year, during which time Ross had hoped to learn from the vastly more experienced Adam. These hopes were quickly dashed, however, as Ross was refused entry to Adam’s darkroom, where he was printing his own negatives to sell during his retirement. When Ross asked if he could buy a print the reply was “they are far beyond your means, laddie”.

Ross was determined to modernise photography at RBGE and used 35-millimetre Leica cameras and colour film. Over the years he built up a huge collection of colour transparencies of plants in the garden. Ross also did much photography for staff publications, including Fletcher & Brown’s history of the RBGE, and the photographic work for the innovative Plant Exhibition Hall which opened in 1970. One his most important contributions was the design of the studio and darkroom in the new herbarium building opened by the Queen in 1964. This was in use for the next 40 years, under his successors Ken Grant and Sid Clarke.

Throughout his time at the Botanics, Ross led the way for modern photographic techniques, retiring just before the new digital revolution. His work can be found in the photographic slide collection at RBGE.

For many years Ross lived with Alan Russell, who worked as a window dresser at Jenners and as an antique dealer. After Alan’s premature death Ross continued to live in their flat at Comely Bank Grove until shortly before his own death, which took place on the 2nd October 2021 at Ellen’s Glen, Liberton, after a short spell in hospital.

Biography by Leonie Paterson and Henry Noltie using the eulogy compiled by Annalese McDermott of the Humanist Society Scotland after talking to Ross’s friends and family, including Henry Noltie, RBGE and Eric Robinson.

Brodie, James

  • Pessoa
  • 1744-1824

Cullen, James (1936-2013)

  • Pessoa
  • 1936-2013

Cullen was the Director of the Stanley Smith (UK) Horticultural Trust.
He trained at the University of Liverpool before coming to Edinburgh where he worked at the University's Department of Botany, at which point he assisted Peter H. Davis with his Flora of Turkey. Cullen then became Assistant Keeper at RBGE and editor of the European Garden Flora.
(info from (right click, open in new tab) http://assets.cambridge.org/052184/5068/frontmatter/0521845068_frontmatter.htm )

Anderson, J.S.

  • ANJ
  • Pessoa
  • fl.1839

Anthony, John

  • ANT
  • Pessoa
  • 1891-1972

Born in Edinburgh in 1891 to Robert and Marion Anthony, John Anthony attended George Heriot's School and Edinburgh University, reading Arts and Science. His studies were interrupted by the First World War, with him spending eight years in service in France, Italy (where he won a Military Cross in 1918[?]), Egypt and Palestine, resuming University life in 1923.
After graduating in 1924 he worked on a rubber plantation in Malaya for five years, before becoming an assistant lecturer in Botany at the University College in Dundee on his return in 1932. In 1934 he became a lecturer in Forest Botany (amongst other things) at the University of Edinburgh, and so began his career with the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. He was a member of the teaching staff for 24 years, retiring in 1958. In his retirement he worked on producing a guide for indentifying trees, shrubs and undershrubs by their microscopic properties, and a Flora of Sutherland - the latter being published posthumously by the Botanical Society of Edinburgh [Scotland].

Balfour, Colonel Frederick Robert Stephen

  • FRS
  • Pessoa
  • 1873-1945

Born Denbighshire 1873; died London 1945
Educated at Loretto School, Musselburgh and gaining a BA at Oxford University in 1896, Frederick Balfour was initially employed in his family firm in London. He travelled extensively on business and made several expeditions to the Pacific coast of North America, on one occasion staying there for 4 years, acquiring a deep knowledge of forest trees. He introduced the cultivation of several pines including Picea brewiana and developed the Arboretum at the family estate at Dawyck near Peebles, which he had inherited from his father in 1886. Dawyck was already a well established estate with trees dating back to the late seventeenth century. In 1916 Balfour was sent to France to liaise with the French Army over supplies of timber, being appointed Lieut. Colonel for the purpose. His interest in forestry continued after the war and he travelled extensively to supplement the Dawyck collection. With many business interests and directorships, Balfour was a member of the King’s Bodyguard for Scotland, Royal Company of Archers and a local Justice of the Peace and Vice Lieutenant of the county in Peeblesshire.
Sources: R. Desmond ‘Dictionary of British and Irish Botanists and Horticulturalists’; Gardeners Chronicle 1945; RBGE obituary folder.
D.W.

Austin, Dr. William

  • AUS
  • Pessoa
  • 1754-1793

Born Gloucestershire 1754; died London 1793
William Austin was a polymath. He initially studied botany at Oxford, graduating in 1776, and then medicine gaining his MD in 1783. However he also studied, and sometimes lectured in Hebrew, Arabic, Mathematics and Chemistry being elected professor in1785. In 1786 he moved from Oxford to London, building a lucrative medical practice while continuing his chemical studies. He was elected a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, published papers for the Royal Society on ‘Heavy inflammable air’ and theorised (incorrectly) on the origin of kidney stones and hardening of the arteries.
Source: DNB
D.W.

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