Isaac Anderson-Henry

A lawyer in practice in Edinburgh, he is shown as Isaac Anderson SSC in 1840, living at 14 Maryfield, and having offices nearby at 4 Montgomery Street.

He retired from law practice in 1861 upon his wife's inheritance of estates in Woodend, Perthshire, when he changed his name to Anderson-Henry, enabling him to pursue horticulture.^[1] He was president of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh (1866-7),^[2] and collected plants from right around the world, including the Andes, north-western Himalayas, and New Zealand. He studied plant hybridisation in a time that was before the rediscovery of genetics,^[3][4] and was a sometime correspondent of Charles Darwin.

In 1869 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh his proposer being John Hutton Balfour.^[5]

In his final years he lived at Hay Lodge in Trinity, Edinburgh.^[6]