Richard Henry Beddome
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Colonel Richard Henry Beddome was a British military officer and naturalist in India, who became chief conservator of the Madras Forest Department. In the mid-19th century, he extensively surveyed sev
Hebius beddomei (Nilgiri keelback) named in honor of Richard Henry Beddome
Hugh Cleghorn (forester)
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Hugh Francis Clarke Cleghorn was a Madras-born Scottish physician, botanist, forester and land owner. Sometimes known as the father of scientific forestry in India, he was the first Conservator of For
Richard Henry Beddome
…20 January 1874; colonel, 20 January 1879. In 1857, he was selected on account of his devotion to botany and natural history as an assistant to Dr. Hugh Cleghorn, the first conservator of the newly formed Forest Department of the Madras Presidency. He succeeded Cleghorn in 1859 and remained Chief Conservator…
Hugh Cleghorn, charcoal drawing made by Theodore Blake Wirgman on 6 July 1888
Cleghornia acuminata described by Robert Wight
"Foot of the Poonachy Pass", from Forests and Gardens of South India, illustrated by Douglas Hamilton.
Cleghorn (extreme right) with, from left to right, John Lindsay Stewart, Thomas Caverhill Jerdon and William Jameson taken at the Punjab Exhibition, Lahore, 1864.