| LC control no. | no 97021192 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Cleghorn, H. (Hugh Francis Clarke), 1820-1895 |
| Variant(s) | Cleghorn, Hugh Francis Clarke, 1820-1895 |
| Associated country | Great Britain Scotland India |
| Associated place | Madras (India) |
| Birth date | 1820-08-09 |
| Death date | 1895-05-16 |
| Place of birth | Madras (India) |
| Place of death | Fife (Scotland) |
| Field of activity | Surgery Botany Forest conservation |
| Affiliation | Botanical Society of Edinburgh |
| Profession or occupation | Surgeons Naturalists Conservationists |
| Found in | Notes on the botany and agriculture of Malta and Sicily, 1870 : t.p. (H. Cleghorn, M.D.) The forests and gardens of South India, 1861 : t.p. (Hugh Cleghorn, M.D., F.L.S., conservator of forests, Madras Presidency) OCLC, April 3, 1997 (hdg: Cleghorn, Hugh Francis Clarke, 1820-1895; Cleghorn, Hugh Francis Clarke; Cleghorn, Hugh Francis Clarke, 1820-1896; usage: H. Cleghorn; Hugh Cleghorn) Oxford DNB online, 3 November 2017 (Cleghorn, Hugh Francis Clarke (1820-1895), surgeon, naturalist, and forest conservator, was born in Madras on 9 August 1820; after the death of his mother he was sent to Scotland to be brought up by his grandfather, Hugh Cleghorn, who had played a major role in the transfer of Ceylon from Dutch to British control; was an early member of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, graduating MD in 1841; was nominated to the Madras Presidency in 1842 as an assistant surgeon, where from 1845 to 1847 he was appointed to the Mysore commission; died at Stravithie on 16 May 1895; is best known as a pioneering forest conservator in India) |
| Associated language | eng |
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