George Henry Caton Haigh

George Henry Caton Haigh
FZS, MBOU, DL
Born1860
Died11 February 1941
NationalityBritish
Scientific career
FieldsBotany

George Henry Caton Haigh (1860 – 11 February 1941) FZS, MBOU, DL, was a world authority on Himalayan flowering trees and exotic plants.[1] He was also a famous ornithologist and his manuscript collection is lodged in The Natural History Museum.

He was the eldest of five sons and three daughters[2] of George Henry Haigh DL JP (1829–1887), of a Lincolnshire landed gentry family of Scottish origin, and Emma Jane Adelaide (1828–1919), daughter of politician Sir Robert Way Harty, 1st Baronet, of Dublin.[3]

He was appointed High Sheriff of Lincolnshire for 1912.

References

  1. ^ The Finest Gardens in Wales, Tony Russell, Amberley Publishing, 2015
  2. ^ The Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of the British Empire for 1881, The Baronetage and Knightage, Joseph Foster, Nichols and Sons, 1881, p. 294
  3. ^ A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland, sixth edition, vol. I, Bernard Burke, Harrison, 1879, p. 707