Robert Colquhoun (East India Company officer)

Sir Robert David Colquhoun, 12th Baronet (15 May 1786 – 2 June 1838) served in the British Indian Army.^[1]^[2]^[3] 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.^[4]

Colquhoun was a plant collector and early patron of the Calcutta Botanical Gardens.^[5]^[6] The evergreen genus Colquhounia was named in his honor.^[6]

There is a memorial to Colquhoun in the Holy Ghost cemetery in Basingstoke. Its headstone says that he died at sea aboard the ship Reliance.

References[]

^ Asiatic Journal. 1838. part II. page 231.
^ Colbourn, Henry (1839). A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. p. 230. Retrieved 20 December 2018.
^ Family Search. Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950.
^ "3rd Gorkha Rifles". Lt. Nawang Kapadia. Retrieved 20 December 2018.
^ Colquhoun, Sir Robert
^ ^a ^b 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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[1] Asiatic Journal. 1838. part II. page 231.

[2] Colbourn, Henry (1839). A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. p. 230. Retrieved 20 December 2018.

[3] Family Search. Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950.

[gurkha-4] "3rd Gorkha Rifles". Lt. Nawang Kapadia. Retrieved 20 December 2018.

[sir-5] Colquhoun, Sir Robert

[evergreen-6] 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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