Francis Buchanan (1762–1818)
Francis Hamilton (1818–1829)
1762–1829
Physician and botanist. Served in the Bengal Medical Service, 1794–1815. Superintendent, Calcutta botanic garden, 1814–15. Took the name Hamilton when he succeeded to his mother’s estate upon the death of his elder brother, 1818. FRS 1806.
Sources
R. Desmond 1977
ODNB
Bibliography
Desmond, Ray. 1977. Dictionary of British and Irish botanists and horticulturists, including plant collectors and botanical artists. 3d ed. London: Taylor and Francis.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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