Hugh Cleghorn
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1820 – 1895
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Who was Hugh Cleghorn?
Hugh Francis Clarke Cleghorn of Stravithie FRSE FLS was a pioneering Scottish physician, botanist and forester who worked in India. Cleghorn is known as "the father of scientific forestry in India," and the plant genus name Cleghornia was named after him by Robert Wight.
Cleghorn endowed the Chair of Forestry at Edinburgh University.
He was the son of the first British colonial secretary to Ceylon, Hugh Cleghorn.
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- Born
- Aug 9, 1820
Chennai - Education
- University of Edinburgh
- University of St Andrews
- Died
- May 17, 1895
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on July 23, 2013
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