Isaac Anderson-Henry
{{Short description|Scottish lawyer and horticulturist}}
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| birth_name = Isaac Anderson
| birth_date = {{Birth year|1800}}
| birth_place = Edinburgh(?)
| death_date = 21 September {{Death year and age|1884|1800}}
| death_place = Edinburgh(?)
| nationality = Scottish
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| occupation = lawyer, horticulturist
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| awards = Fellow, Royal Society of Edinburgh
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Isaac Anderson-Henry of Woodend FRSE (né Anderson, 1800 – 21 September 1884) was a Scottish lawyer and horticulturist.
Life
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.{{cite web|url=https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=nameregs/nameregs_115.xml|title=Darwin Correspondence Project – Name file 115 – Anderson-Henry, Isaac|accessdate=9 July 2020}} He was president of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh (1866-7),{{cite web| url = http://www.lloydlibrary.org/exhibits/darwin/anderson.html| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20101015021445/http://lloydlibrary.org/exhibits/darwin/anderson.html| archive-date = 2010-10-15| title = Darwin By Post exhibit at the Lloyd Library and Museum Isaac Anderson-Henry}} 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,{{cite journal|doi=10.1080/03746608609468252 | volume=16 | title=Obituary Notice of Mr Isaac Anderson-Henry | journal=Transactions of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh | year=1886 | issue=1–4 | pages=189–190}}{{cite journal|doi=10.1080/03746608609468253 | volume=16 | title=Obituary Notice of Mr George Bentham | journal=Transactions of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh | year=1886 | issue=1–4 | pages=190–192}} 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.{{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=0-902-198-84-X|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf|access-date=2016-10-24|archive-date=2013-01-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130124115814/http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf|url-status=dead}}
In his final years he lived at Hay Lodge in Trinity, Edinburgh.Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1882-83
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