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Robert Colquhoun (East India Company officer)

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Name
  
Robert Colquhoun


Role
  
East India Company officer

Sir Robert David Colquhoun of Luss, Bart (15 May 1786 – 2 June 1838) served in the British Indian Army. In 1815 in present-day Almora, holding the rank of lieutenant, he organized the Kemaoon Battalion, predecessor of the 3rd Gorkha Rifles, to fight in what became known as the Gurkha War.

Colquhoun was a plant collector and early patron of the Calcutta Botanical Gardens. The evergreen genus Colquhounia was named in his honor.

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