Patrick Synge

Patrick Millington Synge VMH (17 September 1910 - 1982) was a British botanist, writer and plant hunter.

Career

He was a graduate of Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge. His first book documented a British Museum Natural History expedition to East Africa, led by George Taylor, later Director at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. He fought in the Intelligence Corps in the Second World War between 1943 and 1945, gaining the rank of Major. He was editor of the Horticultural Journal between 1945 and 1970 and was awarded the Victoria Medal of the Royal Horticultural Society[1] in 1971. His many expeditions, including those to Nepal with Colville Barclay and Turkey with Admiral Paul Furse[2] were documented in his 1973 book In Search of Flowers.[3] He died in 1982.[4]

Publications

Royal Horticultural Society accepted plant names

Notes

  1. Synge The Gardens of Britain; 1 (dust jacket)
  2. Rear Admiral John Paul Wellington Furse (1904-1978)
  3. Best of British Magazine, Jan. 2014, p. 31
  4. "Person Page 3937". Thepeerage.com. 2007-08-07. Retrieved 2015-04-23.
  5. Royal Horticultural Society database of plants

References

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