Patrick Synge

Patrick Millington Synge VMH, botanist, writer and plant hunter, was born on 17 September 1910. He was a graduate of Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge. His first book documented a British Museum Natural History expedition to East Africa, led by George Taylor, later Director at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. He fought in the Intelligence Corps in the Second World War between 1943 and 1945, gaining the rank of Major. He was editor of the Horticultural Journal between 1945 and 1970 and was awarded the Victoria Medal of the Royal Horticultural Society in 1971. His many expeditions, including those to Nepal with Colville Barclay and Turkey with Admiral Paul Furse were documented in his 1973 book In Search of Flowers. He died in 1982.

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 * Abutilon X Patrick Synge
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