The forests and gardens of south India
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Published by W. H. Allen & Co., 7 Leadenhall Street, London, England..
1861
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Hugh Francis Clarke Cleghorn (9 August 1820 – 16 May 1895) was a Madras-born Scottish physician who worked in India and pioneered as a botanist and in forest conservancy. Cleghorn, sometimes known as the father of scientific forestry in India, was instrumental in the creation of the forest department in the Presidency of Madras. The plant genus Cleghornia was named after him by the botanist Robert Wight. Cleghorn returned to Scotland in 1869 and developed forestry education in Scotland and established a lecturership at the University of Edinburgh.
Cleghorn was born in Madras on 9 August 1820, where his father, Peter (sometime referred to as Patrick) Cleghorn (1 December 1783 – 9 June 1863) was Registrar and Prothonotary (later Administrator-General) in the Supreme Court of the Madras Presidency. His mother Isabella Allan died in Madras (1 June 1824) when he was four years old.[2] His grandfather Professor Hugh Cleghorn (1752–1837) was the first British colonial secretary to Ceylon. The family returned to Stravithie in 1824 ...
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The standard author abbreviation used to indicate this person as the author, when citing a botanical name: Cleghorn
1 plant species named BY Cleghorn and 14 plant species named AFTER Cleghorn.