Isaac Anderson-Henry
Isaac Anderson-Henry of Woodend FRSE (né Anderson, 1800– 21 September 1884) was a Scottish lawyer and horticulturist.
Life
A lawyer in practice in Edinburgh, he is shown as Isaac Anderson SSC in 1840, living at 14 Maryfield, and having offices nearby at 4 Montgomery Street.
He retired from law practice in 1861 upon his wife's inheritance of estates in Woodend, Perthshire, when he changed his name to Anderson-Henry, enabling him to pursue horticulture.[1] He was president of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh (1867-8),[2] and collected pants from right around the world, including the Andes, north-western Himalayas, and New Zealand. He studied plant hybridisation in a time that was before the rediscovery of genetics,[3] and was a sometime correspondent of Charles Darwin.
In 1869 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh his proposer being John Hutton Balfour.[4]
In his final years he lived at Hay Lodge in Trinity, Edinburgh.[5]
References
- ^ http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/person/namedef-115
- ^ http://www.lloydlibrary.org/exhibits/darwin/anderson.html
- ^ http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03746608609468252 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03746608609468253
- ^ BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF FORMER FELLOWS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH 1783 – 2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X.
- ^ Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1882-83