James Backhouse
1794–1869
Naturalist and Quaker missionary. Travelled in Tasmania, 1832–4; Australia, 1835–7; South Africa, 1838–40. Collected Australian plants for William Jackson Hooker at Glasgow University. Returned to England in 1841 and maintained a nursery in York, devoting much time to missionary and temperance work.
Sources
Aust. dict. biog.
R. Desmond 1994.
Bibliography
Aust. dict. biog.: Australian dictionary of biography. Edited by Douglas Pike et al. 14 vols. [Melbourne]: Melbourne University Press. London and New York: Cambridge University Press. 1966–96.
Desmond, Ray. 1994. Dictionary of British and Irish botanists and horticulturists including plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers. New edition, revised with the assistance of Christine Ellwood. London: Taylor & Francis and the Natural History Museum. Bristol, Pa.: Taylor & Francis.
