Sir Robert David Colquhoun, 12th Baronet (15 May 1786 – 2 June 1838) served in the

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, holding the rank of

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, he organized the Kemaoon Battalion, predecessor of the 3rd Gorkha Rifles, to fight in what became known as the Gurkha War. Colquhoun was a plant collector and early patron of the Calcutta Botanical Gardens.Colquhoun, Sir Robert
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'' Colquhounia'' was named in his honor. There is a memorial to Colquhoun in the Holy Ghost cemetery in Basingstoke. Its headstone says that he died at sea aboard the ship ''Reliance''.

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