For other people named Sir Robert Colquhoun, see Sir Robert Colquhoun.
Sir Robert Colquhoun of Luss, Bart (died 1838) served in the British Indian Army. In 1815 in present-day Almora, holding the rank of lieutenant, he organized the Kemaoon Battalion, predecessor of the 3rd Gorkha Rifles, to fight in what became known as the Gurkha War.[1]
Colquhoun was a plant collector and early patron of the Calcutta Botanical Gardens.[2][3] The evergreen genus Colquhounia was named in his honor.[3]
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- ↑ 3rd Gorkha Rifles
- ↑ Colquhoun, Sir Robert
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Smith, Archibald William (1997). A Gardener's Handbook of Plant Names: Their Meanings and Origins. Courier Dover Publications. p. 103. ISBN 978-0-486-29715-6.
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