George Henry Caton Haigh
British ornithologist and botanist (1860–1941)
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George Henry Caton Haigh (1860 – 11 February 1941) FZS, MBOU, DL, was a world authority on Himalayan flowering trees and exotic plants.[1] He was also a famous ornithologist and his manuscript collection is lodged in The Natural History Museum.
He was the eldest of five sons and three daughters[2] of George Henry Haigh DL JP (1829–1887), of a Lincolnshire landed gentry family of Scottish origin, and Emma Jane Adelaide (1828–1919), daughter of politician Sir Robert Way Harty, 1st Baronet, of Dublin.[3]
He was appointed High Sheriff of Lincolnshire for 1912.
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