Isaac Anderson-Henry of Woodend

FRSE Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy of science and letters, judged to be "eminently distinguished in their subject". This soci ...

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

lawyer A lawyer is a person who practices law. The role of a lawyer varies greatly across different legal jurisdictions. A lawyer can be classified as an advocate, attorney, barrister, canon lawyer, civil law notary, counsel, counselor, solic ...

and

horticulturist Horticulture is the branch of agriculture that deals with the art, science, technology, and business of plant cultivation. It includes the cultivation of fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, herbs, sprouts, mushrooms, algae, flowers, seaweeds and no ...

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

Botanical Society of Edinburgh The Botanical Society of Scotland (BSS) is the national learned society for botanists of Scotland. The Society's aims are to advance knowledge and appreciation of flowering and cryptogamic plants, algae and fungi. The Society's activities includ ...

(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

John Hutton Balfour John Hutton Balfour (15 September 1808 – 11 February 1884) was a Scottish botanist. Balfour became a Professor of Botany, first at the University of Glasgow in 1841, moving to the University of Edinburgh and also becoming the 7th Regius Keepe ...

. 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