George Henry Caton Haigh
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George Henry Caton Haigh (1860 – 11 February 1941) FZS, MBOU, DL, was a world authority on Himalayan flowering trees and exotic plants. He was also a famous
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and his manuscript collection is lodged in The
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. He was the eldest of five sons and three daughters of George Henry Haigh DL JP (1829–1887), of a Lincolnshire landed gentry family of Scottish origin, and Emma Jane Adelaide (1828–1919), daughter of politician Sir Robert Way Harty, 1st Baronet, of
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.A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland, sixth edition, vol. I, Bernard Burke, Harrison, 1879, p. 707 He was appointed
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for 1912.


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1860 births 1941 deaths People from Cheshire English ornithologists Fellows of the Zoological Society of London High Sheriffs of Lincolnshire English botanists {{UK-ornithologist-stub