George Young (surgeon and botanist)

George Young (died 1803) was a British military surgeon and botanist who served as the first superintendent of the botanic gardens in Kingstown, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.[1][2][3] The naturalist John Ellis, in his book Some Additional Observations on the Method of Preserving Seeds from Foreign Parts (London, 1773) described Young as "principal surgeon to the [St. Vincent military] hospital, whose indefatigable zeal in collecting and propagating a variety of the most valuable plants, is known to all the curious botanists about London."[4] Young's noteworthy efforts in cultivating a variety of tropical plants important for the economy of the British colonies was recognized by the Royal Society of Arts in 1774, which awarded him a gold medal for his work.[5] Named as one of the pupils of the botanist John Hope in the later's entry in the ODNB.

References

1. "Young, George (-1803)". JSTOR Global Plants. Retrieved 7 November 2014.
2. "Beginning of the Gardens (1765-1811)". Botanical Gardens St. Vincent & the Grenadines. Retrieved 31 December 2020.
3. "Dr George Young". Botanical Gardens St. Vincent & the Grenadines. Retrieved 31 December 2020.
4. Ellis, John (1773). Some Additional Observations on the Method of Preserving Seeds from Foreign Parts. London: W. Bowyer and J. Nichols. p. 10. Retrieved 7 November 2014.
5. Howard, Richard A. (1997). "The St. Vincent Botanic Garden -- The Early Years" (PDF). Arnoldia. 57 (4 (Fall)): 13. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 November 2014. Retrieved 7 November 2014.