Isaac Anderson-Henry

Isaac Anderson-Henry
Born	Isaac Anderson 1800 (1800) Edinburgh(?)
Died	21 September 1884 (aged 83–84) Edinburgh(?)
Nationality	Scottish
Occupation(s)	lawyer, horticulturist
Awards	Fellow, Royal Society of Edinburgh

Isaac Anderson-Henry of Woodend FRSE (né Anderson, 1800 – 21 September 1884) was a Scottish lawyer and horticulturist.

Life

A lawyer in practice in Edinburgh, he is shown as Isaac Anderson SSC in 1840, living at 14 Maryfield, and having offices nearby at 4 Montgomery Street.

He retired from law practice in 1861 upon his wife's inheritance of estates in Woodend, Perthshire, when he changed his name to Anderson-Henry, enabling him to pursue horticulture.^[1] He was president of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh (1866-7),^[2] and collected plants from right around the world, including the Andes, north-western Himalayas, and New Zealand. He studied plant hybridisation in a time that was before the rediscovery of genetics,^[3][4] and was a sometime correspondent of Charles Darwin.

In 1869 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh his proposer being John Hutton Balfour.^[5]

In his final years he lived at Hay Lodge in Trinity, Edinburgh.^[6]

References

1. "Darwin Correspondence Project – Name file 115 – Anderson-Henry, Isaac". Retrieved 9 July 2020.
2. "Darwin By Post exhibit at the Lloyd Library and Museum Isaac Anderson-Henry". Archived from the original on 2010-10-15.
3. "Obituary Notice of Mr Isaac Anderson-Henry". Transactions of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh. 16 (1–4): 189–190. 1886. doi:10.1080/03746608609468252.
4. "Obituary Notice of Mr George Bentham". Transactions of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh. 16 (1–4): 190–192. 1886. doi:10.1080/03746608609468253.
5. Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-01-24. Retrieved 2016-10-24.
6. Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1882-83