David Lockhart
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David Lockhart (died 1845) was an English gardener and botanist, one of the few survivors of an 1816 expedition to the River Zaire.{{Cite book |last1=Mayhew |first1=Robert J. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lxfzDwAAQBAJ&dq=david+lockhart+river+zaire+death&pg=PA246 |title=Geographies of Knowledge: Science, Scale, and Spatiality in the Nineteenth Century |last2=Withers |first2=Charles W. J. |date=2020-08-18 |publisher=JHU Press |isbn=978-1-4214-3854-2 |language=en}}
Life
Lockhart was born in Cumberland and became a gardener of the Royal Gardens, Kew. In 1816, he became the assistant of Christen Smith, naturalist to the Congo expedition under James Hingston Tuckey.{{cite DNB|wstitle=Lockhart, David|volume=34}}{{cite ODNB|id=16899|first=Giles|last=Hudson|title=Lockhart, David}} Lockhart returned alive, but suffering badly from fever, while the expedition's principals and many of the other members died. It was Lockhart who delivered Smith's dried botanical collection to Sir Joseph Banks.{{cite book|author=G. E. Wickens|title=The Baobabs: Pachycauls of Africa, Madagascar and Australia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Vu9ZX3NWPYIC&pg=PA28|date=2 March 2008|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-1-4020-6431-9|page=28}}
Two years later, Lockhart was put in charge of the Colonial Gardens in Trinidad, then under the supervision of Sir Ralph Woodford. He visited England in 1844 with the view of enriching the Trinidad gardens, but he died in 1845 soon after his return to the island. A genus of orchids, which was named Lockhartia after him by William Jackson Hooker, was merged into Fernandezia, by John Lindley.{{cite book|author=John Lindley|title=The vegetable kingdom: or. The structure, classification and uses of plants|url=https://archive.org/details/vegetablekingdo00lindgoog|year=1847|publisher=Bradbury & Evans, Whitefriars|page=[https://archive.org/details/vegetablekingdo00lindgoog/page/n255 181]}} The "braided orchids", however, as Lockhartia plants are known, are now taken as distinct from Fernandezia.{{cite book|author1=Joe E. Meisel|author2=Ronald S. Kaufmann|author3=Franco Pupulin|title=Orchids of Tropical America: An Introduction and Guide|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TqSDBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA136|date=6 November 2014|publisher=Cornell University Press|isbn=978-0-8014-5492-9|pages=136–}}
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