Name Isaac Anderson-Henry | Died 1884 | |
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. He was president of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh (1867-8), 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, 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.
In his final years he lived at Hay Lodge in Trinity, Edinburgh.