Cleghorn, Hugh Francis Clarke

Education

Student United College 1833-1834 Lat. Jun.; Gk. Jun. 1834-1835 Lat. Prov.; Gk. Prov. 1835-1836 Lat. Prov.; Gk. Prov.; Math. 2; Chem. 1836-1837 Ethics; Physics. LL.D. 28.1.1885.

Birth/childhood

Born 9.8.1820 eldest son of Peter Cleghorn, Administrator General, Supreme Court, Madras [Supreme Court, Chennai, India] and Isabella Allan.

Career

Also at Edinburgh University - M.D. 1841.

Apprenticed 1837 to Professor Syme, surgeon, Edinburgh for five years. Assistant surgeon Indian Medical Service 1842. Surgeon major 1862. Retired 1869. Conservator of Forests, Madras [Chennai, India] 1865 -1867. Inspector General of Forests Department 1867 - 1869. [Surgeon, doctor]

Publications

The forests and gardens of south India (London: W.H. Allen, 1861)

etc.

Death

Died 16.5.1895 at Stravithie.

Sources

  • D.G. Crawford, Roll of the Indian Medical Service, 1615-1930 (London, 1930) M1094
  • F. Boase, Modern English Biography...1851-1900. 6v. (Truro, 1892-1921)
  • St Andrews Citizen 18.5.1895
  • R. Desmond, Dictionary of British and Irish Botanists and Horticulturalists (London, 1977) p135
  • Edin. Med. Jnl. 40(2) 1895 p1138 - 40
  • Trans. Proc. Bot. Soc., Edin. 20 1895 p439 - 446
  • Hugh Cleghorn (forester) in Wikipedia.