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Robert Colquhoun (East India Company officer)

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{{Other people|Robert Colquhoun}}{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2012}}Sir Robert David Colquhoun, 12th Baronet (15 May 1786 – 2 June 1838) served in the British Indian Army.^[1]^[2]^[3] In 1815 in present-day Almora, holding the rank of lieutenant, he organized the Kemaoon Battalion, predecessor of the 3rd Gorkha Rifles, to fight in what became known as the Gurkha War.^[4]

Colquhoun was a plant collector and early patron of the Calcutta Botanical Gardens.^[5]^[6] The evergreen genus Colquhounia was named in his honor.^[6]

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1. ^Asiatic Journal. 1838. part II. page 231.
2. ^{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h_U8AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA230&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=3#v=onepage&q&f=false |last=Colbourn |first=Henry |title=A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire |date=1839 |page=230 |accessdate=20 December 2018}}
3. ^Family Search. Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950.
4. ^{{cite web |url=http://nawang.com/3rd-gorkha-rifles/ |title=3rd Gorkha Rifles |publisher=Lt. Nawang Kapadia |accessdate=20 December 2018}}
5. ^Colquhoun, Sir Robert
6. ^¹{{cite book |last = Smith |first = Archibald William |authorlink = |title = A Gardener's Handbook of Plant Names: Their Meanings and Origins |publisher = Courier Dover Publications |series = |year = 1997 |doi = |isbn = 978-0-486-29715-6 |page = 103}}

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