Robert Wilmot-Horton
Videos
Sir Robert John Wilmot-Horton, 3rd Baronet,, GCH, PC, FRS, born Robert John Wilmot, was a British politician, sociopolitical theorist, and colonial administrator. He was Under-Secretary of State for W
Portrait of Wilmot-Horton in the 1820s by Richard James
Christ Church, Oxford
Robert Wilmot Horton
Anne Wilmot-Horton
Videos
Anne Beatrix Wilmot-Horton was an English amateur botanist who was the dedicatee of the plant genus Hortonia and of Lord Byron’s poem 'She Walks in Beauty'.
Robert Wilmot-Horton
…affairs, but Wilmot-Horton continued to write pamphlets advocating and defending his ideas. He returned to Britain in 1837. Wilmot-Horton married Anne Beatrix Horton, daughter and co-heiress of Eusebius Horton, of the Catton Hall estate in Derbyshire, in 1806. Her beauty inspired Lord Byron to write the poem "She…
Hortonia, a genus of flowering plant endemic to Sri Lanka, is named for Anne Wilmot-Horton.