Darwin Correspondence Project

 Scottish gardener ; orchid specialist. Gardener to the Glasgow iron and shipping agent Thomas Dawson, at Meadowbank, Uddingston, Lanarkshire. Following Dawson’s death, worked as a landscape gardener in Glasgow and Manchester. Founding member of the Manchester and North of England Orchid Society. Editor of the Northern Gardener.

Sources: Desmond, Ray 1994 Orchid Review 7 1899: 198 Post Office Glasgow directory 1863–4

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See also Correspondence, volume(s): 11