William Ormston Backhouse, Date of Birth, Date of Death

William Ormston Backhouse

British agriculturalist and geneticist

Date of Birth: 20-Feb-1885

Date of Death: 07-Aug-1962

Profession: botanist, geneticist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

William Ormston Backhouse (1885 – 1962) was an English agriculturalist and geneticist, and a member of the Backhouse family of County Durham, several generations of which were influential in the development of horticulture. William Ormston Backhouse worked for a period of fíve years at the Cambridge Plant Breeding Station and the John Innes Institute, but left Britain to become a geneticist for the Argentine Government.
He established a number of wheat-breeding stations in Argentina, then moved to Patagonia, where he reared pigs, grew apples and other fruits and started intensive honey production.
He returned to England and bred red-trumpet daffodils at Sutton Court.