George Arnott Walker-Arnott
George Arnott Walker-Arnott of Arlary FRSE MA LLD (6 February 1799 – 17 June 1868) was a Scottish botanist.
Life
He was born in Edinburgh in 1799 the son of David Walker Arnott of Arlary. He attended Milnathort Parish School then the High School in Edinburgh.[1]
He studied law in Edinburgh though later became a botanist, holding the position of Regius Professor of Botany in the University of Glasgow from 1845 to 1868. He studied the botany of North America with Sir William Hooker and collaborated with Robert Wight in studies of Indian botany.
He was a member of the Societe de Histoire Narurelle in Paris and the Moscow Imperial Society of Natural History.
He married Mary Hay Barclay in 1831.
He died in Glasgow and is buried in Lighthill Cemetery.
References
External links
- Hooker, Sir William Jackson; G. A. Walker-Arnott (1841). The Botany of Captain Beechey's voyage. Henry George Bohn.
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