Robert Colquhoun (East India Company officer)

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]

References

^ 3rd Gorkha Rifles
^ 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 978-0486297156.

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Name	Colquhoun, Robert, Sir
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Short description	British East India Company Army officer
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Date of death	1838
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