biography
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| lived:
| (1818–89)
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| biography:
| Botanist and alpinist, born in Dublin, Ireland. He was the first president of the Alpine Club (1857) and author of the Alpine Guide (1863–8). Liberal MP for Carlow, Ireland, he was colonial under-secretary (1855–7), and wrote on the botany of Morocco and South America. |
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