William Ormston Backhouse
English agriculturalist and geneticist (1885–1962)
William Ormston Backhouse | |
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| Born | 1885 |
| Died | 1962 |
| Nationality | British |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Botany, agricultural and genetics |
William Ormston Backhouse (1885 – 1962) was an English agriculturalist and geneticist, and a member of the Backhouse family of County Durham, several generations of which were influential in the development of horticulture.
William Ormston Backhouse worked for a period of fíve years at the Cambridge Plant Breeding Station and the John Innes Institute, but left Britain to become a geneticist for the Argentine Government. He established a number of wheat-breeding stations in Argentina, then moved to Patagonia, where he reared pigs, grew apples and other fruits and started intensive honey production.[1] He returned to England and bred red-trumpet daffodils at Sutton Court.
References
- ^ "The Backhouse Family". Durham County Local History Society. Archived from the original on 19 July 2011. Retrieved 21 April 2019.
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