Richard Trevor Clarke
Army officer and horticulturalist . Major in the Northampton and Rutland Infantry Militia, 1862. Bred nearly thirty new varieties of begonias and many new strains of cotton. Awarded a gold medal by the Cotton Supply Association of Manchester. Member of the Royal Horticultural Society; served on the council and scientific committee for many years; awarded the society’s Veitchian medal, 1894.
Sources: Army list Desmond, Ray 1994 Gard. Chron 1897.04.17: 263
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See also Correspondence, volume(s): 10,11,12