Isaac Anderson-Henry of Woodend

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(né Anderson, 1800 – 21 September 1884) was a

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and

horticulturist Horticulture (from ) is the art and science of growing fruits, vegetables, flowers, trees, shrubs and ornamental plants. Horticulture is commonly associated with the more professional and technical aspects of plant cultivation on a smaller and mo ...

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,

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, when he changed his name to Anderson-Henry, enabling him to pursue horticulture. He was president of the

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(1866-7), and collected plants 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, and was a sometime correspondent of

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. In 1869 he was elected a Fellow of the

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his proposer being

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. In his final years he lived at Hay Lodge in

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.Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1882-83

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Anderson-Henry, Isaac 1800 births 1884 deaths Scottish horticulturists Scottish lawyers